biography
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| female
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| lived:
| (1926–55)
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| biography:
| Convicted murderer, born in Rhyl, Denbighshire, NE Wales, UK. A night-club hostess, in a jealous rage she repeatedly shot her former lover, David Blakely, a motor-racing driver, outside a Hampstead pub (10 Apr 1955). The case achieved notoriety as a ‘crime passionnel’ - Blakely was trying to extricate himself from their tempestuous, often violent, relationship at the time of his murder. Ellis was the last woman to receive the death penalty in Britain, and was hanged on 13 July 1955. |
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