The Trial of Ruth Ellis
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- A reconstruction of the trial of Ruth Ellis the last woman to be hung in Great Britain in 1955 starring Georgina Hale and narrated by Robert Morley.
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Georgina Hale is one of the best English actresses of her generation. This was excellent. Thank you for uploading.
@Tab Ford Because I regard her as one of the best actresses of her generation...I can't put it any other way.
George Orwell was one of the best writers of his generation. Kenny Dalglish was the best number 7 of his generation....etc.
Was. Passed January 2024.
She looks much too old to play Ruth Ellis.
@@jamesross1799Ruth Ellis didn’t look young.
RIP Georgina I will really miss you my dear friend ❤️
Superb performance by Georgina
Hale 💐👍💖👏
Thank you for uploading 💖
She is just fantastic. Superb actress.
She is. Her work with Ken Russell is exceptional.
Ruth Ellis was asked by the judge , "what were you thinking off when you shot him." He expected her to have been prepared by her defence to say , ' l didn't know what I was doing.' But she said , " What do you think I thought , I meant to kill him." The judge then , under English law , had no alternative but to find her guilty of murder the sentence of which was hanging. The judge thought the Home Secretary would commute the sentence to life. But the Home Secretary , Lloyd George's son , was trying to make a political name for himself as a hard man and refused to commute. The judge was greatly upset and affected him for life.
She wasn’t asked by the judge. It was the only question put to Ruth by prosecutor Christmas Humphreys , "When you fired the revolver at close range into the body of David Blakely, what did you intend to do?"; her answer was, "It's obvious when I shot him I intended to kill him." Many feel that this reply guaranteed a guilty verdict and the mandatory death sentence.
Ruth Ellis was a mother & worked , David acted appallingly he was so abusive . Today I think it would of been taken into account that Ruth was psychologically emotionally driven to a point of hysteria. Her jealous other lover was the one who supplied her with a gun .
Yes, no question, the trial of Ruth Ellis was one of the 20th Century's most appalling miscarriages of justice. It is a dark stain on the history of British justice.
I met Ruth Ellis' daughter Georgie in 1995. She was beautiful and fragile, like her mother, and she also died young. She had a sad life, and never came to terms with her mother's execution. Ruth's son died in very tragic circumstances.
The repercussions of an injustice like Ruth suffered are enormous, and cross generations. It is above all a story of man's inhumanity to woman.
would have been
Might even have swayed the jury (or at least the Home Secretary), if only she'd entered the abuse as evidence in her defence.
But then, would she have been believed? Was her silence a symptom of the abusive relationship she'd been in? Who knows. One thing however, capital punishment is wrong.
@@glamdolly30 How so? Unless she couldn't tell right from wrong, she committed murder. And she quite knew what she was doing was wrong.
@@garethaethwy wrong, mate, it is just punishment - and she was a murderess
Hale gave a brilliant portrayal of Ruth !
David literally lived off Ruth , economically, emotionally, Ruth was trying to keep a income & typically David came from money , yet expected Ruth to keep him . Then dumped her after being so violent & jealous, he moved on so coldly. Ruth needed support not another jealous lover teaching her how to use a gun
The lines Robert Morley speaks: "She was provided with amusements, carefully nourished and closely guarded" made me go cold.
Yes, they are chilling lines I agree. Loved Robert Morley though, he had one of those wonderful British voices that marked him out as an unforgettable actor. He was perfect casting for this show,
great british drama...they dont make em like this anymore.. thanks for upload!!
Ruth Ellis...should never have been exd...disgrace what that lass suffered.and in the end admitted it ! or could have walked away In 7YRS for culpable h.. sad.
anglosaxon legal system, was extremly gender unjusticed and death sentenced was frecvently misused.
RIP, Georgina Hale xx
I saw Georgina Hale a few years ago at a screening in London of Ken Russell's "The Devils". A remarkably beautiful and elegant woman with the aura of a true star.
I used to like Georgina Hale as an actress she was on TV and film a lot when I was a kid.
Sadly this TV drama portrays Ruth Ellis as a bright, tough and sassy survivor - when she was anything but! She was a classic long term victim of abuse, from childhood onwards. That's why she protected her lover Desmond Cussen in court, even though he should have been in the dock with her! He told her to kill her lover David Blakely (he was jealous of him), gave her the gun, oiled and prepared it and loaded it. He even gave Ruth Ellis shooting lessons in the woods on that fateful Easter weekend and drove her to find the victim. He had David Blakely and Ruth Ellis' blood on his hands and yet he got away scot free. Indeed, he was a witness for the prosecution, and poor Ruth never said a word against him! This is the most warped and disgusting trial ever and the furthest thing from justice it's possible to imagine. Against the general misogyny of the age (that continues today), Ruth didn't stand a chance. A dyed blonde who had extra marital sex with more than one lover? Forget the murder - in the jury's eyes she deserved to die for that alone! Her trial didn't even last 2 days and the jury was out for a mere 14 minutes before returning a 'Guilty' verdict. I am content that everyone who had Ruth Ellis' blood on their hands ultimately paid for it, one way or another. There is such a thing as natural justice.
Your view wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that the murderer was a woman, would it? And you say "Forget the murder"! And of course the small matter of her guilty plea...
@@paulsawtell7611 Ruth Ellis was disadvantaged by being a woman her whole life. This continued in the court where she got no proper defence and was hanged for a crime that was not murder by the legal definition. Have you studied the case at all, or are you just so desperate to bash women that you don't care about the actual facts? God you're dull!
glamdolly20 dolly, don't blame the system, or faults with the trial, it was the system that hanged her based on her actions. Let me explain.
Indeed, her not calling a defence witness ( _ab initio legalis auxilium_ ) , anyone of whom could have almost certainly got her sentence reduced to murder in the second, or manslaughter at the very least.
Her not exercising her full legal rights ( _ab indittii_ ) to, at the very least, call a doctor at the Middlesex Hospital, who could have corroborated both her losing her baby due to being struck by David, as well as all of the bruising on her body ( _verum agendi genus_ ). Along with some remorse, this would almost certainly have allowed the judge to direct the jury as to to the best way to deliberate, and to take her defence into account when choosing a conviction.
I know this is only a drama, so we don't know how the real Ruth Ellis acted in court, but had she appeared not so aloof, and less pompous, the jury may have taken some pity on her and either recommended a life sentence with a minimum term stipulation (say 25 to 30 years), or at the very least allow the judge some leeway in his sentencing along similar lines.
Indeed her defence lawyer, could have argued ' _crimen amor_ ' (crime of passion - even if premeditated), or, I think in this case, more justifiably ' _scelus de defensione sui_ ' (crime used in self defence, even if the defendant was hoping for a fatal outcome).
The judge could've awarded a life without parole sentence had this been argued by her defence lawyer, especially if it's taking into to defence the bodily injuries she received by the the Victim, or or the the miscarriage.
So it wasn't necessarily a screwed up trial, I think she screwed her own trial by not asking her defence lawyer to bring forth certain witnesses.
Both her lawyer, and the judges hands were tied in this respect.
In the film, you can hear her friend up in the balcony thinking out loud "come on Ruth, tell them about the bruising, tell them about out the baby! Tell them about his drinking, and psychological abuse and the way he treats you'.
See? It's not necessarily the Old Bailey's fault, she must shoulder some of the blame for her own death Sentence.
It was the misogyny of the time.
glamdolly20 her lover should have been in the dock with her as you say, as he was an accessory. He should have done some time.
Agree Cussen was obviously heavily involved but managed to walk free from the whole mess..suspiciously poor policing to put it mildly
walk free? he was the accountant for the family business but then after this this emigrated to australia!
Did he not walk free?
@@martinlivesley1069 as a bird
THE Old Bailey judge who sent Ruth Ellis to the gallows for murdering her lover 48 years ago had wrongly deprived her of her only line of defence, it was claimed in the Court of Appeal yesterday.
Sir Cecil Havers barred the jury from considering whether Ellis, who was born in Rhyl, had acted under provocation and might therefore be guilty of manslaughter rather than the capital offence of murder.
"The appeal judges ruled that for the provocation defence to succeed it had to be proved that Ellis was subjected to an immediate affront and all her normal self-control had been lost.
Lord Justice Kay said: "Under the law at the date of the trial, the judge was right to withdraw the defence of provocation from the jury and the appeal must fail.
"If her crime were committed today, we think it likely that there would have been an issue of diminished responsibility for the jury to decide. But we are in no position to judge what the jury's response to such an issue might be."
the key here is that the law was applied based on the law of the day - and this was the role of the Judge in the trial had to provide guidance to the court. and the arguments on this part of the trial was held without the jury in court
Not true .Read my comment above.
When one is tried for murder , it is not the jury who decides whether it is manslaughter that would mean the trial is changed during its course. You cannot go to trial for burglary and the jury decide it's buggery.😀
Rip Miss Hale.❤
Watch “ DANCE WITH A STRANGER” & you see David thumping Ruth over n over & punching her in her pregnant stomach . He promised to take her son out & stood them up after living off her for months . He could of broken it off , instead he lived off her & his drunken behaviour lost her job due to his shouting .
But he did break it off - he left her the week before
according to wikipedia he thumped her in the belly causing a miscarriage and she had two miscarriages, she shot him only about 5 weeks later, i think all that should have been taken into account too,i dont in any way condone her killing him but there were a few things that led up to this to make her unbalanced
there was no definition of diminished responsibility in law in 1955
David Blakely was a monster, who treated Ruth Ellis like dirt. She was very ill after the miscarriage he caused, killing the baby with a vicious assault. A woman's body is full of pregnancy hormones after carrying and losing a child, which cause mood swings and mental fragility - it's a travesty this wasn't taken into account, for all kinds of reasons.
Ruth did a terrible thing, no question. But there's also no question the balance of her mind was disturbed, and she was put up to it by the scheming Desmond Cousens. He literally put a loaded gun in her hand, and drove her to the victim, who he hated as a rival for her affections. He wanted Blakely out of the way, but didn't have the balls to kill him himself so set Ruth up to do it.
The fact she made no attempt to escape justice, but meekly awaited the arrival of police, shows exactly how mentally broken she was. That such a person should be convicted of premeditated murder and in turn, murdered by the state, is an appalling injustice. Her cruel death also ruined the lives of both her children.
The execution of Ruth Ellis in 1955 was one of the worst British miscarriages of justice of the 20th Century. Just 10 years later capital punishment was abolished in Britain, and a year after that in 1966, the UK's most notorious child serial killers, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, escaped the hangman.
She didn’t want it mentioned in court. But yes, blakely a murderer also
a few things! her father sexually abused her from age 13 just for starters, he got her sister pregnant and the baby was raised as a sibling. she was on happy pills from her dr. from her teens onward when a canadian soldier got her pregnant, promised to marry her and then returned to canada without saying goodbye etc. turns out he had a wife and three children back home, her mother found out. nowadays she would have played the diminished responsibility card!
@@clairthomas5830 he murdered someone?
Georgina Hale's very good in this. I suspect that Miranda Richardson's portrayal of Ellis in Dance with a Stranger was borrowed from Hale's performance as Jean Bird in Budgie.
Rest in peace Georgina Hale January 2024.
Great stuff. Thanks uploader 😃
I wish Robert Morley could have bothered to learn his lines instead of reading them off a board😭
Very clever critique, obvious once enlightened, the flat almost monotoned delivery has no real dynamic.
The trouble with Ruth Ellis her life was rubbish from the start a scrued up girl abused by loads it's a shame
These kinds of things still happen in America a lot. Like Lisa Montgomery's case. She was executed just a year ago...
screwed
Playing Christmas Humphreys is Edward Hardwicke - later of Doctor Watson fame.
The bit at 47:13 was hotly contested, apparently she never lost her cool and Pierrepoint flatly denied the claims she was dragged to the gallows kicking and screaming, he said so publicly and therefore on record.
She smiled at him
I guess we will never know really. One says this, another says that. However, consider if you were Pierrpoint. Very unpopuplar outcome at the time. It would hardly be edifying to admit to hanging a protesting woman.
Of course you'd want to be known for hanging a compliant Ellis. Compliant means guilty or strongly implies it..how can you blame Albert just doing his jon.
Or noncompliance..but Albert how could you...
That being the case, the man has a bar to run, Id not think on the balance of probabilities we should take his word over others
The truth of So much of this sad story will never be known. The only fact is that many suffered due to the events of this case. Before during and after the murder and execution of David and Ruth .
@@granto6738
He said she tried to smile.
But she wouldn't have had much time to do anything as, as soon as they're stood still, the straps are on and the lever thrown.
One of the innocent guys hanged in Walton late (40s/early 50s) was in mid sentence telling everyone around him "I'm inno..."
@@jonldn well said u
Love Robert Morley, a wonderful British actor. Shame you can see he is reading his lines here!
I remember watching this when I was a kid😮
I believe the actual judge was the father of Nigel Havers, the actor, and in time became the Attorney General.
The judge in the Ruth Ellis trial was Nigel Havers' Grandfather - but you are right, his father was also a judge who became Attorney General and presided over many big trials including Peter Sutcliffe the Yorkshire Ripper.
Posh people in Britain are all at the top nepotism and contempt for common folks ensures it
@@glamdolly30 Nigel’s father was Michael Havers not the judge in the scutcliffe case he was attorney general
@@TomSanderson100 Michael Havers was the prosecuting barrister in the Peter Sutcliffe trial. Nigel Havers frequently tells the story of attending the trial at his father's invitation, and marvelling at his skills as a performer when cross examining Sutcliffe. He said it was a great education for him as an actor.
@@glamdolly30 not exactly
Mrs Ellis should have stayed away from Blakely and stuck with Desmond , and in a couple of years she would have been over him, and had a good life
Me watching this bc it's part of my SEB work and I'm being forced to👁👄👁
Stellar cast.
Ms. Hale looks very familiar to me. Although I don't know where/what I would have seen her in. (I'm an American from the GenX era.)
Very pretty lady and seems to be a great actress.
RIP Georgina Hale
Malis does not actually only mean murder or GBH. It actually means any kind of sin by Catholic Law. The judge says, "May the Lord have mercy on your soul." Well if that's the case your Honour as you absolutely insist on being called then why don't you have mercy on her yourself! And BTW. William Lloyd George. You know what you did now don't you? Now that you've had to answer to a judge yourself. But not a Human one...
@TheRenaissanceman65 Gwilym Lloyd George I assume the Home Secretary at the time.
Malice.
Total miscarriage of justice, it was a crime of passion. Ruth covered for Desmond, he gave her the gun, drove her around and no doubt egged her on.
Yeah he got away with murder in a way i think they would of called it joint enterprise today
Theresa Pierce and where is the documented proof of these facts... by the way I am not disputing that he did , but people talk as if it was a known fact as the time when it wasn’t and Ruth’s own motives are often questioned as to this regard in where she said she obtained the gun .
@@jonldn do a little research and you will find it.
Crime of passion isn't a category in English law.
@@theresapierce3934 So from your "research" given that Ruth Ellis pleaded not guilty - where is the basis for. miscarriage of justice, given that she did not give an account of been given the gun by Cussens at her trial? why would she cover for him? BTW I am not referring to her statement the day before her death - but what was given as evidence at her trial.?
Wow, what a good story, poor Ruth after all the trauma she went through, you really feel for her. Don't know why she just did not leave the situation . I suppose it was different in those days because men treated women awful, what a brave women to go through all that.
Not all men treated women badly in the past. It was largely the horror expressed by the general public at the way Ruth was treated and ultimately executed that started the process of abolishing the death penalty in the UK.
Crime of passion surely
Not a defence in England
This was a crime of passion and in France, she would not have been hung. It is all very sad.
As the definition of crime of passion is … a crime in the heat of the moment the fact that this was not the case here rather negates these claims that in other countries she would have been treated differently…. So many terms are thrown about regarding this case…. The fact is that she shot David Blakey in cold blood…. Not even during an argument
@@jonldn Yes but she was very passionate about it!!
@@lesleybrown1583 what does that actually mean if you step back from it. Many crimes can be said to be committed in the “heat of passion”. The fact is that Ruth hunted David down and shot him in cold blood .
The correct term regarding Hanging as a form of capital punishment is ' Hanged' , past or present tense .
Hanged.
I think the actor who played Desmond Cussen was in The Human Jungle with Herbert Lom
The Magdala public house in Hampstead, outside of which Ellis shot Blakely dead, closed last February and the building has been converted into flats. I don't know whether the bullet marks in the frontage, from the shooting, have been repaired during renovations, but I did see them still evident up to about year 2010, when I last visited.
The Magdala, although it remains closed, has not been converted to flats. The pub has been refurbished as have the flats above it. The current owner Bow Capital who bought it from Punch Taverns are seeking a new tenant to run it as a pub.The "bullet holes" are said to be the work of the pub landlady in around 1984 to attract enthusiasts to the pub. The holes are in fact much smaller than the calibre of bullets used and are clearly the work of a drill.
+Ray Coggin
Interesting, thank you.
Apologies for the misinformation.
They are not genuine bullet holes - shamefully the pub landlady added them and even put up a sign claiming they were the work of Ruth Ellis. Cashing in on a tragedy - nice!
the landlord drilled the bullet holes to make a tourist attraction. she fired 5 bullets, the first missed, the second felled blakely, then she moved close to him and shot him on the ground, the last shot so close that he had powder marks on his skin. she didn't manage to empty the gun.
The stripe-matching between Robert Morley's collar and lapels is very good. He must have been a Savile Row customer.
Is really is quite professional. Lovely suit. I do b3lieve you are correct. Thats real class
“Talky” from “War and Remembrance”.
Lady Killers remember this show from the 80's my parents used to watch it, can recognise that theme music and it takes me right back to hearing it from up in my bed lol... was around 12 at the time. :D
It's interesting, desmond cussen's was the one who got her drunk, gave her the gun and also drove here there. And when you hear the transcript being voiced here of his evidence for the prosecution, it's kinda sick.
Of course they didn't know that he had been involved back in the 80's when this was aired as it never came to light until the 90's, but still... you've got to wonder about him haven't you, what a major sick ******? Apparently they reckon she agreed to not involve him as he'd agreed to take care of her two children financially.
Between Blakley who emotionally and physically beat her up, her on-off lover Desmon Cussen who gave her the gun, drove her to Blakley and did everything but pull the trigger, and her useless defence lawyer John Bickford, tragic Ruth Ellis was well and truly shafted by just about every man in her life!
And the tragedies continued long after her murder by the state. Her mother was brain damaged after attempting suicide by gas oven, her son killed himself in a lonely bedsit after trashing Ruth's grave, and her daughter Georgina (Georgie) died of cancer aged 50. Many lives were blighted and prematurely ended by this shocking miscarriage of justice.
Ruth was clearly out of her mind when she shot Blakley, worn down from his severe, long-term domestic abuse. That she didn't even defend herself against the murder charge, shows just how fragile she was. Today she would probably receive a diagnosis of PTSD. As you mentioned, she also covered for Desmond Cussen under oath, when it is obvious she would not have killed anyone without his determined help.
Her defence lawyer John Bickford never pushed the police to investigate Cussen's involvement in the execution of David Blakley - a critical question was the origins of the revolver she used, which was of course Cussen's. She told the improbable lie that someone in the nightclub had gifted it to her, and it had sat in a drawer at her home unused for 3 years. But it was well oiled and what's more, Cussen had taken her to woods and taught her how to aim and fire it.
Cussen had Ruth's blood on his hands and Bickford had done such a lousy job 'defending' her, he may as well have been working for the prosecution! Cussen emigrated to Australia soon after Ruth's murder conviction, to escape his notoriety and further legal implications of the case. Both he and Bickford died lonely alcoholics, haunted by their associations with Ruth's murder by the state aged just 28.
Ruth Ellis' story is the most appalling miscarriage of justice, the hanging of a domestic abuse victim who was not in her right mind when she was urged and armed by Desmond Cussen, to kill the cruel David Blakely.
Before she went to the gallows, Ruth wrote a heartfelt letter to Blakley's parents stating: 'I shall die loving your son'. It was the typical blind devotion of a victim for her abuser.
Today the courts would recognise Ruth's PTSD and diminished responsibility, and a murder charge would be out of the question. She'd been driven to the edge of madness by David Blakely's cruelty. She'd been abused all her life, firstly by her father, so expected only ill-treatment from men.
When she killed Blakley, she'd just suffered a miscarriage brought about by a vicious beating from him, and was desperately ill - both physically and mentally. Because of her relationship with him, she had just lost her home and her flat. She had given him most of the money she'd earned. She was also feeling humiliated, because after proposing to her, he had abandoned her for a weekend of partying with the Findlaters - middle class friends who despised Ruth as 'common'.
Against this explosive background, she sought refuge with old flame Desmond Cussen, who wanted Blakely out of the way so he could have Ruth for himself. Without Cussen's crucial involvement, tiny, 5ft 2ins, 7 stone Ruth would never have killed David Blakley - but he may well have killed her. Ironically, if Ruth had been the victim of a domestic killing rather than the perpetrator, she would not have become a household name but just another female murder statistic.
her son committed suicide in about 1981 so his boarding school education didn't serve him well. her ex husband committed suicide and her mother attempted it by gas and was brain damaged as a result.
@@MsVanorak that is so sad.
R.I.P Georgina ❤
Produced tears here
The titles and music to this used to scare the shit out of me as a kid. I think the old Holloway was still there when this was made.
💯❤️Rurh
First released in 1805, Pernod was the first absinthe produced in France. It was the most popular brand of absinthe throughout the 19th century, but was banned (along with all other absinthes) in 1915, after the spirit was accused of having psychoactive affects.
does it? has it been scientifically tested? i've had a few nights on pernod and don't remember anything out of the ordinary happening.
Georgina hale was also in the move the sweeney with john thaw.
Brilliant lady …Georgina Hale .
Jack Hedley and Edward Hardwicke were also good in "Colditz."
The prison warden's offer of arranging for Ruth Ellis to have her hair bleached is hard to believe. Certainly would not happen today.
God bless you Ruth Eliss R.I.p.
It was made in 1980
Criminal law at the time concerning murder in Britain was enacted in the 19th century. The penalty for murder was death by hanging. The degrees of murder in effect in the present had yet to be legislated. Still, given the facts of the case, the Home Secretary, David Maxwell Fyffe, could have commuted her sentence to life imprisonment. That he did not owes to the fact he was very conservative and supported capital punishment.
As an aside, he also vehemently opposed male homosexuality. In 1953 Maxwell Fyffe referred to it as a “plague over England,” and vowed to wipe it out. At the time, the criminal law in England provided for a term of imprisonment “not exceeding
two years”, with or without hard labour, for any man found guilty of “gross indecency” with another male, whether “in public or in
private”.
The law on Homicide was common law, not statutory and this continued with the 1957 Homicide Act.
The Home Secretary was Gwilym Lloyd George in office .19 October 1954 - 14 January 1957
@@jonldn I stand corrected.
The Gay Huntsman no worries neither of them covered themselves in much glory! Stay well.
The Judge (Lord Justice Havers) was the father of the actor Nigel Havers.
No, that was his grandfather.
Your very wrong it was his Grandfather Cecil not his father thank god your not a Judge ehhh 😮
Didn't desmond cussons show her how to shoot a gun and didn't he drive ruth to blakeley
The donning of the black square cap by the judge when passing sentence of death looks suspiciously like a freemasonic symbol. Is this not similar to the mortarboard worn by students on their graduation day?
It must be. Very sad, that at the moment someone’s death warrant is confirmed, the judicial system resorted to arcane and ritualistic symbology which served no practical purpose.
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. ~ Romans 8:18
i thought it odd when she asked if she would be blindfolded on the gallows
Another abused woman bites the dust by means of Pierrepoint's hangman's noose. It's obvious to me that Ruth was hung because of her humble beginnings and her lack of legal ''connections''. Ruth was beaten so many times by the ''victim'' that she was ''as crazy as a jailhouse rat''. The real victim in this miscarriage of justice was Ruth Ellis. God Bless her Soul . Her American equivalent is California's (Alameda County) Barbara Graham. (Also executed in 1955). She was tried by the gossipy California press who labeled her ''Bloody Babs''. She was ''set up'' by some court savvy criminal accomplices and some overzealous California investigators and prosecutors. The gullible jury didn't help matters either.
Are the transcripts from her trial still around?
Of course they are….
@@jonldn No, they're not! See the book by Monica Weller - the National Archives, and the Justice department claim they've been "lost."
@@francishuddy9462
I assume this is referring to the alleged theft of PRISON records. Transcripts of the trial have been published and have also been dramatised.
Reference: MEPO 2/10910
Description:
Inquiry into alleged theft of prison records relating to Ruth ELLIS from Holloway Prison in January 1964
@@francishuddy9462 and its strange that the transcript you allege Ms Weller states is missing were referenced by her “With the transcript of the trial secreted away for many years, other than journalist Douglas Howell being given exclusive access to it in 1962 for his book published in 1963 about Ruth Ellis, nobody would be any the wiser about this cover up.
50 years later, when I ghost wrote Ruth Ellis My Sister's Secret Life, and with the transcript of the trial in front of me at The National Archives, it was my chance to show how Stevenson's minimal questioning about the shots fired misled the court in 1955.:”. So the “lost trial notes” were lost after she made reference to them????
@@francishuddy9462 surprise!
He beat her gave her black eyes and she's still in love with him , and then shot him. What ? I assume that's in the transcript.
Ruth Ellis was repeatedly knocked about the head by Blakely. Research has come to light, that the chemistry in women's brains undergo change when their heads are habitually struck.
These days Ruth would get off.
RIP Ruth Ellis🙏
Likewise, David Blakely was repeatedly shot at close range by Ruth Ellis - but, unlike your comment, this was proved - it can be easy to forget that David Blakely was not given the right to defend himself. I am not saying that there was not abuse on both sides, but we do have the right to be innocent until proven Guilty.
@@jonldn there were witnesses who could attest to Blakely's violent abuse.
That plays havoc on a woman's psyche.
@@MADAMA-CAMEL.ASS-HAIRYS sorry I am not saying that but where were all these people at the trial ? Some conspiracy I suppose to keep them away? And was this “research “ available at the time. Ruth Ellis should not have been hanged but not for the reasons that are put forward where every man involved is maligned or abused . So much of this sad case is hearsay and facts that either do not stand up , cannot be proved or just made up .
@@jonldn true, there were no witnesses at trial.
Lord Mishcon, Ruth's lawyer, wanted to call them, but Ruth refused.
Besides, it was common knowledge at the time, that he knocked her about.Ruth was a night club hostess, and the abuse was a topic for salacious gossip.
All of London knew.
@@MADAMA-CAMEL.ASS-HAIRYS it was “common knowledge” what does that mean exactly ? In the days before social media etc , common knowledge in the club maybe, but a statement that all of london knew is really not one that stands up.
Ultimately she was tried by the rope and found to be guilty. It has clarity.
Is that Teabag from the children's programme????
The summing up by the judge in my eyes is appalling “ this is not of court of morals “ in his view the only verdict possible “
the phrase "this is not a court of morals" was to direct the jury not to consider Ruth's lifestyle. His remark was this was the only verdict possible could also have been to the Jury who had ( based on the evidence presented to them ) to make a dreadful decision that they had ( based on this ) come to the only verdict possible
36:55 GUILTY!
Not that simple, but ultimately yes.
no hangings in the usa last year 2019 20 by injection 2 by gas
All civilised societies have got rid of the death penalty.
I can’t believe I’m actually related to this woman but only via marriage though
Her case is heartbreaking. My dad said that everyone you spoke to at the time about this case was angry about the hanging of Ruth Ellis. They all followed the case in the newspapers, they knew how this man had abused her, and despite the assumed posh accent, she was just a poor working class kid who had tried to make a better life for herself and her children.
But Ruth also had an affair 😮
Would you believe that Georgina Hale was born, "Georgina A Hole"? Yes, not even a period after "A"! Are parents creeps? Yes!
Was she really that well spoken?
There is a recording of Ruth Ellis speaking on UA-cam . I think it is quite a recent inclusion .
If you listen to recordings of her actual voice she is obviously a working class girl doing a posh voice -like an elocution teacher is holding her in a headlock. What we used to call a "telephone voice". It's very touching to hear how she was aspiring to have what she saw as a better life.
Her sister said her and Ruth were raised to speak well. Their dad was middle class. But listening to Ruth's audio tapes, sounds like she put it on a bit.
Yes
She didn’t go shouting and screaming at all??
Do British judges and barristers still wear wigs? I would assume that would be incredibly annoying...and itchy. 🥴
They certainly do. I am a legal secretary and one day a barrister left his bag in the office overnight and myself and another secretary tried his wig on it was very smelly. However I do not think it is compulsory in some courtroom hearings or tr
ials to wear them
Pourquoi.cette.video.sur.la.vie.de.rugh.ellis.est.pas.en.francais
The judge's ruling was based on a 'misunderstanding of the law' and led to a miscarriage of justice which had lasted for nearly 50 years, said Michael Mansfield QC, appearing for Ellis's 81-year-old sister Muriel Jakubait.
He told three appeal judges that fresh expert evidence would show that Ellis, the last woman to be executed in Britain, was suffering from 'battered woman syndrome' when she shot her lover dead.
It was accepted at the trial that she had been "disgracefully treated" by him and that this could have left her in an intensely emotional state.
But Mr Justice Havers and the six very experienced prosecution and defence barristers involved in the case were "labouring under a misconception of the law", said Mr Mansfield.
They believed that, to establish provocation, the defence had to prove the killing was not motivated by malice - that what happened was in the 'passion of the moment' without any intent to kill or cause grievous bodily harm.
Hottest voice ever! 😍
HELLO ALL : A MOVING FILM ON THE LAST UK | GB EXECUTION ON THE LAST FEMALE RUTH ELLIS, ( METHOD : BY HANGING ) THE HANGING EQUIPMENT : REMOVED FROM WANDSWORTH PRISON, 1996'S FREEDOM FOR MANY OTHER PEOPLE ! MAY YOU NOW HAVE MERCY UPON YOUR SOUL ?
It wasn’t the last Uk execution and she was executed at Holloway.
She went to her death quite bravely
Would Ruth Ellis have swinged if shf had been an aristocratic woman ?
Bmp
Fact. She admitted her guilt, and wanted her story to make s good flim.
Paid the rant?
What was the name of this series called on tv, please?
There's a movie titled Dance With a Stranger.
' Ladykillers ' a 14 episode (1980-81) Granada Television series on famous historical murder cases involving women - 1 hour long plays
She got what she demanded . As the ground was opening up under her feet , she changed her mind . She didn't want to die after all . She was a cold blooded stalker and murderer. If she had been a man, nobody would have any sympathy for him .
But the victim was a man . Frightened and trying to hide from his stalker .
boo hoo
"The victim" as you call him was not so innocent, punching a pregnant woman in the stomach so hard that she miscarried and became very ill.
@@anonanon9187 he was pretty horrible to her. But he had left her 2 days before she shot him. She spent those 2 days stalking him, he wouldn't take her calls. We cant call it provocation or self defence. He had removed himself.
Yes, he left without a thought of Ruth, so she removed him...
Please English Government, Please Bring Back Hanging.
Good man. I agree.
@@oriel229 Sadly the Scottish Government will never bring it back, too Liberal.
@TheRenaissanceman65 when it comes to covid briefings there are but hopefully the union of the United Kingdom will break up soon and there will be an English Government as I fully support English independence as I hate the United Kingdom.
When you put your official letter can I ask that you ask for those executed and then found innocent to be resurrected … or is the taking of a life by the powers that be somehow worth it to punish others?
How ludicrous, so many innocent ppl were hanged . Attenborough pacifically acted as Christie to 10 R place to prevent such a horrendous act to be brought back . The Christie murders were a innocent man was hanged .He was illiterate & his wife & baby were murdered by Christie , yet he was hanged . I’m shocked anyone would support killing another by hanging
OOOOoooo! I do fancy her. Lovely bit of cuddle!.
athenasword1 fancy who?
The judge! Who else ? Lol
Did she really speak with that accent?
Geoff Geoff, she was actually born in the seaside town of Rhyl, North Wales, guess she lost the accent.
Nope
Yep, that was her accent.
Yes I've heard tapes of her she had mastered how to speak with an upper class accent , she was anything but that !
Talitha Getty So the upper classes are so honest..God help us
What a hottie
I dont understand why provocation would ever be used as a defence in this case. she was a psychopath
She was certainly neurotic and narcissistic - but no particular evidence of psychopathology.
No she was not! She had reached a point in a life full of abuse. That is all. British women conducted themselves rather differently then.
@@clairthomas5830 Excuses. She deserved the rope
This ruth ellis actress has a very broad forehead
And if she were a man.... ?
He would have been found guilty of murder and executed as was the law. Why would it have differed?
???? The same conclusion reached, I’m sure
When you kill someone innocently, then you must have to die as well. Even though it is heartbreaking, but think about the pain you inflict on the immediate family of your victim. And honestly, Ruth was not worried about her death in the last few days; she turned to Holy Bible instead. How dare the director corrupting the version in the end?
I have read that she was in fact quite hysterical on the evening before, probably facing the actual execution herself freaked her out a little bit for a short while. All along she wanted to die. She had this weird and wonderful idea that both her and Blakely would go to heaven and be reunited. He was a mongrel and she wilfully took a human life - and showed no remorse it must be noted, so, from a Muslim's perspective, as I am, and you are too going by your name, she and Blakely, like you and me and everyone else will have to face the creator at the end of time and we will all be called to account for everything we did in this life. The almighty will judge us all and he will not be unjust to anyone.
Blakely deserved to die.
Can't stand the voice of georgina hale it grates on you
The judge's ruling was based on a 'misunderstanding of the law' and led to a miscarriage of justice which had lasted for nearly 50 years, said Michael Mansfield QC, appearing for Ellis's 81-year-old sister Muriel Jakubait.
He told three appeal judges that fresh expert evidence would show that Ellis, the last woman to be executed in Britain, was suffering from 'battered woman syndrome' when she shot her lover dead.
It was accepted at the trial that she had been "disgracefully treated" by him and that this could have left her in an intensely emotional state.
But Mr Justice Havers and the six very experienced prosecution and defence barristers involved in the case were "labouring under a misconception of the law", said Mr Mansfield.
They believed that, to establish provocation, the defence had to prove the killing was not motivated by malice - that what happened was in the 'passion of the moment' without any intent to kill or cause grievous bodily harm.
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Sorry Mansfield appeared for the family in the appeal - would you also like to report what the appeal panel reported on the finding of appeal and why it was turned down?