DESMOND Cussen is the former partner of Ruth Ellis – the nightclub manager who became the last woman to be hanged.  Ruth’s tragic story is dramatised in the ITV series A Cruel Love: The ...

Ruth Ellis shot her lover David Blakely in 1955 and her devoted admirer Desmond Cussen was drawn into her toxic love triangle - but what happened to him after her death?

JOHN Bickford was the lawyer who defended nightclub manager Ruth Ellis during her murder trial.  Ruth’s story was dramatised in the ITV series Ruth Ellis: A Cruel Love which follows John’s ...

Desmond Cussen was a key figure in the story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, who is depicted in the ITV drama A Cruel Story: The Ruth Ellis Story ...

Decades later, the firm has been engaged by Ruth’s family to present new evidence and formally request a pardon from the ...

One central figure in the story is Desmond Cussen, who was Ruth's devoted admirer and sometime lover who becomes caught up in Ruth's toxic love triangle alongside Blakely. Desmond had an affair ...

CECIL Havers was a former soldier and judge who oversaw the Ruth Ellis case, which ended in her execution.  He appears in the ...

The story of Ruth Ellis’s execution in 1955 has found its own macabre niche in British folklore, and has been been the ...

The lawyers claim her solicitors in the original case were negligent and also say Ellis was further provoked by another of her lovers, Desmond Cussen, who was jealous of Blakely, a racing driver.