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David Moffat Drummond Blakely, 17th June 1929 – Easter Sunday, 10th April 1955, Holy Trinity, Penn, New Churchyard, Plot 48. David Blakely received unwanted notoriety when he was murdered by Ruth Ellis, and from the newspaper coverage that followed.
Apr 10, 2014 · Alone, a somewhat tragic figure, Mrs Violet Van Der Elst, for years an active campaigner against capital punishment, stands apart from police officers outside Holloway Priosn in North London, on the day Ruth Ellis was hanged for the murder of David Blakely.
Ruth Ellis (née Neilson; 9 October 1926 – 13 July 1955) was a Welsh nightclub hostess and convicted murderer who became the last woman to be executed in the United Kingdom following the fatal shooting of her lover, David Blakely.
Mar 15, 2018 · For those unfamiliar with the case, Ellis was a 28-year-old Welsh waitress and nude model turned Knightsbridge nightclub hostess who shot dead her rakish lover, David Blakely, 25, outside a...
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4 days ago · David Blakely was an up and coming motor racing driver (Picture: Bettmann Archive) ... She killed in cold blood and no sensible person would think of signing a petition for a reprieve. Women asked ...
Convicted murderer Ruth Ellis has been hanged at Holloway Prison, London. Ellis was sentenced to death at the Old Bailey for shooting her lover, 25-year-old racing driver David Blakely,...
Mar 12, 2018 · On April 10, 1955, Easter Sunday, Ruth Ellis tracked down Blakely in front of Magdala, a public house in Hampstead, London. While he was locking his car, she pulled out a .38 caliber revolver and fired it. The first shot missed Blakely, but the second one caused him to collapse onto the ground.
