Ruth Ellis turned up at a pub in Hampstead and shot her lover, David Blakely, dead. Two months later, she was hanged for his murder – becoming the last woman to be executed in the UK. Now, her story is finally being told for the first time.

The Ruth Ellis Story has inspired a recurring complaint on social media after premiering on Wednesday, 5 March. Featuring Bohemian Rhapsody actress Lucy Boynton as the last woman to be hanged in Britain — Ellis fatally shot her lover David Blakely in 1955 — this four-part ITV dramatisation also stars Toby Jones

When Ruth Ellis was executed at the age of 28, she left behind two children - what happened to them after she died?

Ruth Ellis, portrayed by Lucy Boynton, was the last woman to be hanged in Britain after being found guilty of the murder of her lover David Blakely, played by Jack O'Connell

Lucy Boynton leads the cast of ITV's hard-hitting factual drama A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story, which explores the tragic life of the last woman to be hanged in Britain.

The story of Ruth Ellis’s execution in 1955 has found its own macabre niche in British folklore, and has been been the subject of several film, stage and TV treatments. Perhaps the most memorable of these was Mike Newell’s 1985 film Dance with a Stranger,

The Ruth Ellis Story revisits the famous crime, trial and hanging, fleshing out Ellis’s tragic past in the process

Lucy Boynton discusses her intense and heartbreaking portrayal of Ruth Ellis, the last woman executed in Great Britain in 1955.

Executive producers Kate Bartlett and Antonia Gordon of Silverprint Pictures took on the tale of an "obsessive relationship" that was "toxic and abusive," meaning "it was important to tell the full story.

A new ITV drama is set to reignite interest in the famous execution that shook post-war England and advanced the abolition of the death penalty