... home she called to Blakely who ignored her, so she fired a first shot and then pursued him round the car, firing a second shot which caused him to collapse onto the pavement. She then stood over him and emptied the remaining four bullets into him, as he lay wounded on the ground. One bullet injured a Mrs. Gladys Yule in the hand as she was walking up to the pub. Ruth was arrested by an off-duty policeman, Alan Thompson, still holding the smoking gun. She was taken to Hampstead police station where she appeared to be calm and not obviously under the influence of drink or drugs which she is alleged to have been taking by some on the afternoon prior to the shooting. Her trial opened on Monday the 20th June 1955 in the Old Bailey's No. 1 Court before Mr. Justice Havers. Ruth appeared in the dock in a ...

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