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A Cruel Love star Nigel Havers' amazing real-life link to Ruth Ellis
A Cruel Love star Nigel Havers has an incredible real-life connection to the story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, as he plays his own grandfather in the new ITV drama
A Cruel Love features Lucy Boynton as Ruth Ellis, the 28 year old nightclub manager who found herself in a tumultuous and abusive relationship with racing driver David Blakely, played by Laurie Davidson. Domestic violence marred the relationship, culminating in a harrowing finale when Ruth fired the fatal shot at David outside a Hampstead pub in April 1955, which led to her immediate arrest and murder trial. Because David Blakely was a member of the upper class it was deemed inappropriate to talk about his ugly behaviour, so none of the physical and emotional abuse he inflicted was mentioned, and therefore the case was entirely imbalanced and Ruth misrepresented."
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