- Ruth Ellis, the last woman executed in the United Kingdom, has been granted a conditional pardon, a decision confirmed by David Lammy.
- The King accepted the government's advice to issue the pardon, following persistent calls from Ellis's family who argued that crucial evidence of abuse by her lover, David Blakely, was not presented at her original trial.
- Ellis was executed in July 1955 at the age of 28, three months after she shot David Blakely dead outside The Magdala Pub in Hampstead, north London.
- During her trial at the Old Bailey in June 1955, Ellis's confession that she intended to kill Blakely when she shot him led to a swift guilty verdict and the mandatory death sentence.
- Her execution generated significant public outrage and was a pivotal factor in advancing the abolition of the death penalty in Britain, which was eventually suspended in 1965.
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