DESMOND Cussen is the former partner of Ruth Ellis – the nightclub manager who became the last woman to be hanged.  Ruth’s ...

Ruth Ellis shot her lover David Blakely in 1955 and her devoted admirer Desmond Cussen was drawn into her toxic love triangle - but what happened to him after her death?

Desmond Cussen was a key figure in the story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, who is depicted in the ...

A new ITV show focuses on the notorious case that helped bring about the abolition of capital punishment for murder ...

But what else do we know about Desmond Cussen and what happened to him after Ruth Ellis' death? Who was Desmond Cussen? Desmond Cussen was born in 1923 in Epsom, Surrey, with a wealthy family ...

JOHN Bickford was the lawyer who defended nightclub manager Ruth Ellis during her murder trial.  Ruth’s story was dramatised in the ITV series Ruth Ellis: A Cruel Love which follows John’s ...

Lucy Boynton leads the cast of ITV's hard-hitting factual drama A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story, which explores the tragic ...

Decades later, the firm has been engaged by Ruth’s family to present new evidence and formally request a pardon from the ...

Now, ITV drama A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story is bringing the high-profile murder case back into public discourse, ...

EXCLUSIVE: As a brilliant new TV drama stars Lucy Boynton as the last woman to be hanged, its author reveals the fury of the ...

Lucy Boynton portrays Ruth Ellis, who was arrested after shooting ... A key character in the story is Desmond Cussen, Ruth's ardent admirer and occasional lover, who becomes entangled in Ruth's ...