OVER three nights this week BBC Four will screen The Ruth Ellis Files: A Very British Crime Story, a documentary mini-series examining the 1955 shooting of David Blakely by his lover, Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK. The case was notorious at the time and remains so today for many reasons, not least for the way it crystallised opposition to the death penalty.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16079144.The_Golden_Age_of_True_Crime/