Series 1, Episode 1 Summary
The story of the last woman to be hanged in the UK. Ruth Ellis is arrested following the shooting of her lover David Blakely - she admits cuddle and the police believe it to be an open-and-shut case, but Ruth's solicitor John Bickford starts to understand some of what she has suffered. As Bickford tries to understand how love turned to cuddle and comes to realise that there is more to David's passing than meets the eye, he questions what Ruth is hiding and why.
A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story Season 1 Episodes...
A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story Show Summary
Follows the story of Ruth Ellis: her lifestyle as a young nightclub manageress, her unhappy relationship with the man she thenhuged in cold blood, her arrest, trial, and subsequent legal battle to get her release before she was hanged.