She was in love with handsome David Blakely who was 25, had money, dressed well and was known in
London as a clubman and was a racing car driver. Then, one Easter Sunday morning, blonde and beautiful Ruth Ellis walked down the street of London's Hampstead with a Smith & Wesson revolver in her handbag.
 
Jealous of Blakely and with hate in her heart she stood in the shadow of a building near the Magdelina  Public House. As Blakely walked with a friend to a car, she pumped six shells into him. David Moffat Drummond Blakely was born the son of a Sheffield doctor on the 17th of June 1929. His father died in 1952, leaving him a £700 legacy (a large amount of money in those days - for example, I was getting £10.10s a week in wages and I paid a mortgage out of that! Ed.) A cheque dated April 4th 1955 drawn on the National Provincial Bank and made payable to the Oaklands Hotel was signed by David Blakely shortly before he was murdered by the woman he had spent the weekend with there - RUTH ELLIS.

She got herself into the history books and the Guinness Book Of  Records as the last woman to be hanged in Britain. She went to the gallows on the 13th of August 1955. A film was made of her story in  1985 called "Dance with a stranger".

Source "COIN NEWS" and the Blakeney/Blakley newsletter

For a more detailed account of David Blakeley's murder click here The Lady Died For Love, this did not appear in the Blakeley Gazette but was taken from http://www.observergroup.net/ob92back/stories.htm.