DESMOND Cussen is the former partner of Ruth Ellis – the nightclub manager who became the last woman to be hanged.  Ruth’s ...

Before his tragic death, Ruth Ellis' son Andre 'Andy' Neilson made a recording which shed a completely different light on the ...

One central figure in the story is Desmond Cussen, who was Ruth's devoted admirer and sometime lover who becomes caught up in Ruth's toxic love triangle alongside Blakely. Desmond had an affair ...

ITV's drama, A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story, revisits the life of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain - but what happened to her admirer Desmond Cussen? Lucy Boynton portrays ...

ITV's drama, A Cruel Story: The Ruth Ellis Story, revisits the life of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in Britain.

Also starring Mark Stanley as Desmond Cussen, her devoted admirer and part of her toxic love triangle with David, and Nigel Havers, who plays his own grandfather Cecil – the judge who sentenced ...

DESMOND Cussen is the former partner of Ruth Ellis - the nightclub manager who became the last woman to be hanged. Ruth’s tragic story is dramatised in the ITV series A Cruel Love: The Ruth ...

A key character in the story is Desmond Cussen, Ruth's ardent admirer and occasional lover, who becomes entangled in Ruth's destructive love triangle with Blakely. Desmond had an affair with Ruth ...