Jeff Rozelaar invites you to this documentary drama, set in the early 1950s, for the trials of Derek Bentley and Ruth Ellis. Had you been a member of the jury would you have spared them from the Hangman’s noose? The performance now has a 2026 resonance. In July this year, Justice Secretary David Lammy informed MP’s that the King had granted a conditional pardon in the exceptional case after a campaign by Ruth Ellis’s grandchildren.
