Ruth Ellis in Hampstead

The Magdala, South Hill Park, Hampstead, London.

 

'The Magdala is renowned as the site

outside which Ruth Ellis[,]

the last woman in England to be hanged,

shot and killed her lover, David Blakely,

on Easter Sunday 1955.

The victim of domestic abuse, it is still

being argued that Ruth's sentence

should be posthumously quashed from

murder to manslaughter.

The bullet holes are

still evident today.'

 

Needless to say I didn't go looking for bullet holes.