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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Desmond Cussen was a key figure in the story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, who is depicted in the ITV drama A Cruel Story: The Ruth Ellis Story ...

JOHN Bickford was the lawyer who defended nightclub manager Ruth Ellis during her murder trial.  Ruth’s story was dramatised in the ITV series Ruth Ellis: A Cruel Love which follows John’s ...

She’s approached by a man named Desmond Cussen (Mark Stanley), who knew her at her old club. The divorced mom invites the shy but nice guy for a drink, which is where she literally runs into ...

Take Desmond Cussen, for example. Cussen flew Lancaster bombers during the war but afterwards, took to drink and what might euphemistically be described as “the fast life”. While Ellis was obsessed ...