The Ruth Ellis Story on ITV review: a riveting portrayal of a monstrous miscarriage of justice - 4/5 Toby Jones is on characteristically excellent form as the doomed Ruth’s barrister in ITV’s latest t

Ruth Ellis, portrayed by Lucy Boynton, was the last woman to be hanged in Britain after being found guilty of the murder of her lover David Blakely, played by Jack O'Connell

Executive producers Kate Bartlett and Antonia Gordon of Silverprint Pictures took on the tale of an "obsessive relationship" that was "toxic and abusive," meaning "it was important to tell the full story.

The Real Ruth Ellis Story and adapted by Kelly Jones, the mini-series chronicles Ruth’s story from shooting David Bl

Lucy Boynton leads the cast of ITV's hard-hitting factual drama A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story, which explores the tragic life of the last woman to be hanged in Britain.

The Ruth Ellis Story revisits the famous crime, trial and hanging, fleshing out Ellis’s tragic past in the process

Lucy Boynton discusses her intense and heartbreaking portrayal of Ruth Ellis, the last woman executed in Great Britain in 1955.

Here is the cast list in full: A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story was filmed in Dorchester, predominantly Dorchester Prison. This isn't the first time the former prison was used for filming, it's also been featured in the BBC series Luther.

In A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story, Boynton and her co-stars – which include Cats and The Road Trip star Laurie Davidson as Blakely, and Mr Bates vs The Post Office’s Toby Jones as Ellis’s lawyer John Bickford – explore the aftermath of Ellis’s crime, and the events in her life that preceded it.

The story of Ruth Ellis’s execution in 1955 has found its own macabre niche in British folklore, and has been been the subject of several film, stage and TV treatments. Perhaps the most memorable of these was Mike Newell’s 1985 film Dance with a Stranger,