Laura Enston says her grandmother, who was the last woman to be hanged in the UK, was "really let down during her trial". Ruth Ellis was found guilty of murdering her former lover, David Blakely, and was executed in 1955. But the family is now seeking a posthumous pardon and says, "she was on trial for how she looked, how she behaved for being sexually confident, for being a single mother", Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00The trial lasts just over a day. The jury take 14 minutes to convict her. She's hung 22 days later.
00:07There was no appetite to save Ruth. We're pursuing a pardon because we now know, you know,
00:13she was really let down during her trial. There's lots of new evidence now. She was on trial for
00:18how she looked, how she behaved, for being sexually confident, for being a single mother, not married.
00:23There was so much more at play and ultimately she was, I think they made an example of her.