I'm a little confused

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"I am guilty, I'm a little confused."

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"Рут Э́ллис (англ. Ruth Ellis; 9 октября 1926, Рил, Денбишир, Уэльс — 13 июля 1955, Лондон, Англия) — британская преступница, последняя женщина в истории Великобритании, подвергнутая смертной казни. Она была казнена после признания виновной в убийстве своего любовника, Дэвида Блейкли.

Будучи выходцем из низших слоёв общества, Эллис оказалась втянута в мир лондонских ночных клубов, работая администратором в одном из них, что привело к беспорядочному образу жизни со множеством скоротечных романов, некоторые из которых были с посетителями клубов из высших слоёв общества и знаменитостями. Среди них был и Блейкли, автогонщик, уже помолвленный с другой женщиной, и Десмонд Кассен, управляющий компанией розничной торговли.

В пасхальное воскресенье 1955 года Эллис застрелила насмерть Блейкли у входа в паб Магдала в Хэмпстеде, после чего сразу же сдалась полиции. На процессе она взяла на себя полную ответственность за это убийство, а её учтивость и хладнокровие как на суде, так и в заключении были отмечены в британской прессе. Она была повешена в тюрьме Холлоуэй, Лондон, казнь исполнил Альберт Пирпойнт.

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Blakely offered to marry Ellis

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On 8 November 1950, she married 41-year-old George Johnston Ellis, a divorced dentist with two sons, at the register office in Tonbridge, Kent.[4] He had been a customer at the Court Club. He was a violent alcoholic, jealous and possessive, and the marriage deteriorated rapidly because he was convinced she was having an affair. Ruth left him several times but always returned.

In 1951, while four months pregnant, Ruth appeared, uncredited, as a beauty queen in the Rank film Lady Godiva Rides Again.[5] She subsequently gave birth to a daughter Georgina, but George refused to acknowledge paternity and they separated shortly afterwards and were later divorced. Ruth and her son moved in with her parents and she went back to prostitution to make ends meet.[3]

Murder

In 1953, Ruth Ellis became the manager of the Little Club, a nightclub in Knightsbridge. At this time, she was lavished with expensive gifts by admirers, and had a number of celebrity friends.[3] She met David Blakely, three years her junior, through racing driver Mike Hawthorn.

Blakely was a well-mannered former public school boy who attended Shrewsbury School and Sandhurst, but also a hard-drinking racer. Within weeks he moved into her flat above the club, despite being engaged to another woman, Mary Dawson. Ellis became pregnant for the fourth time but had an abortion, feeling she could not reciprocate the level of commitment shown by Blakely towards their relationship.[6]

She then began seeing Desmond Cussen. Born in 1922 in Surrey, he had been an RAF pilot, flying Lancaster bombers during the Second World War, leaving the RAF in 1946, when he took up accountancy. He was appointed a director of the family business Cussen & Co., a wholesale and retail tobacconists with outlets in London and South Wales. When Ruth was sacked[citation needed] as manager of the Little Club, she moved in with Cussen at 20 Goodward Court, Devonshire Street, north of Oxford Street.

The relationship with Blakely continued, however, and became increasingly violent and embittered as Ellis and Blakely continued to see other people.[6] Blakely offered to marry Ellis, to which she consented, but she lost another child in January 1955, after a miscarriage induced by a punch to the stomach in an argument with Blakely.[6]

The first shot missed and he started to run,

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On Easter Sunday, 10 April 1955,[8] Ellis took a taxi from Cussen's home to a second floor flat at 29 Tanza Road, Hampstead, the home of Anthony and Carole Findlater, where she suspected Blakely might be. As she arrived, Blakely's car drove off, so she paid off the taxi and walked the quarter mile to the Magdala,[9] a four-storey public house in South Hill Park, Hampstead, where she found Blakely's car parked outside.

At around 9:30 pm David Blakely and his friend Clive Gunnell emerged. Blakely passed Ellis waiting on the pavement when she stepped out of Henshaws Doorway, a newsagent next to the Magdala. He ignored her when she said "Hello, David," then shouted "David!"[citation needed]

As Blakely searched for the keys to his car,[10] Ellis took a .38 calibre Smith & Wesson Victory model revolver from her handbag and fired five shots at Blakely. The first shot missed and he started to run, pursued by Ellis round the car, where she fired a second, which caused him to collapse onto the pavement. She then stood over him and fired three more bullets into him. One bullet was fired less than half an inch from Blakely's back and left powder burns on his skin.

Ellis was seen to stand mesmerised over the body and witnesses reported hearing several distinct clicks as she tried to fire the revolver's sixth and final shot, before finally firing into the ground. This bullet ricocheted off the road and injured bystander Gladys Kensington Yule in the base of her thumb.

Ellis, in a state of shock, asked Gunnell, "Will you call the police, Clive?" She was arrested immediately by an off-duty policeman, Alan Thompson, who took the gun from her, put it in his coat pocket, and heard her say, "I am guilty, I'm a little confused." She was taken to Hampstead police station where she appeared to be calm and not obviously under the influence of drink or drugs. She made a detailed confession to the police and was charged with murder.[citation needed] Blakely's body was taken to hospital with multiple bullet wounds to the intestines, liver, lung, aorta and trachea.