RUTH ELLIS DOCUMENTARY SERIES COMING UP ON BBC4

Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in Britain who also had links with Leatherhead, will feature in a new three-part TV investigative documentary starting at 9pm on Tuesday, 13 March on BBC4. The series is entitled The Ruth Ellis Files: A Very British Crime Story.

Writer Monica Weller unveiled fresh evidence about the case in her book Ruth Ellis, My Sister's Secret Life, published in 2005. In 2015 she gave a talk to the L&DLHS on how she had come to ghost write the book. Now she is a consultant for the new documentary in which filmmaker Gillian Pachter re-examines the case.

There are several Leatherhead connections in Monica's book. Ruth Ellis's father was taken to the new Leatherhead Hospital in Poplar Road during the Second World War and Desmond Cussen, a friend of Ellis and a key character in the story, lived in Garlands Road. His house is shown above.

  

Signed copies of Ruth Ellis, My Sister's Secret Life are available from Barton's Bookshop in Leatherhead.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2018/11/ruth-ellis-1

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