Nightclub hostess Ruth Ellis went to the gallows in July 1955, three months after shooting dead David Blakely (Picture: Hulton Archive/Getty Images) The family of the last woman to be hanged in Britain said ‘justice has finally been done’ after it was announced she will be given a posthumous conditional pardon. Nightclub hostess Ruth Ellis went to the gallows in July 1955, three months after shooting dead David Blakely. The mum-of-two, 28, was convicted after jurors deliberated for just 15 minutes. She never disputed shooting Blakely at The Magdala Pub in Hampstead, north London, but evidence she was ‘badly treated by her lover’ was never heard at the trial, her family said. They appealed to justice secretary David Lammy seeking a conditional pardon. Mr Lammy told the Commons today: ‘I hav