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Find out the truth, says Ruth Elllis letter before execution

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The letter is written on prison paper with her name, prisoner number and the date at the top.

Forum Auctions in London estimates it will sell for between £1,500 and £2,000.

“This poignant letter, written the day before her execution, hints at Ellis’ divulging to her lawyer Victor Mishcon that she had been given the gun which she used to kill her lover David Blakely by Desmond Cussen, who had also showed her how to use it,” said Rupert Powell, deputy chairman at the auction house.

“It is almost certainly one of the last letters she ever wrote.”

Mr Rogers visited Ellis in prison and received her agreement to an appeal to the Home Secretary for clemency – or leniency.

However, this was denied, the auction house said.

Ellis was hanged at London’s Holloway Prison.

She shot Blakely outside The Magdala pub in Hampstead, London, following a tumultuous relationship involving infidelity on both sides.


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