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13:33uncontrollable sexual jealousy
13:35and you should never breach your client's
13:38confidence again. Is that understood?
13:44Yes, Mr. Stamonson.
13:50The defence calls
13:52Anthony Findlater.
13:57I swear by
13:58almighty God that the
14:00evidence I shall give shall be
14:02the truth, the whole truth
14:03and nothing but the truth.
14:17Yeah.
14:18Give it here, it's right there.
14:21Oh no.
14:23Watch out.
14:29David, how are you?
14:32I'm so sorry
14:33about last night.
14:35I was humiliated, David,
14:37in front of everyone
14:38by your friend Carol.
14:42Yes, well, I think
14:43she was a bit upset.
14:44Why?
14:45I told her
14:46I was breaking it off with Mary.
14:50I'm not marrying someone
14:52just because they approve of her.
14:55I don't care what they think,
14:56I don't care what any of them
14:57think.
15:00I want to be with you.
15:08Well, poor Mary.
15:09You might have chosen
15:10a better day than your birthday,
15:11you heartless bastard.
15:12I wondered if I might get
15:38an advance on my wages.
15:39He's been sponging again, is he?
15:42I'm going to have to start
15:43charging you rent on a flat.
15:45You can't do that.
15:46That flat is a place of business,
15:48not a love nest.
15:50You think he'll make you happy?
15:52I'm not asking him to leave.
15:54Rent will be £12 a week then.
15:56What's this?
16:06The children are asleep
16:07and dinner will be served
16:09in five minutes.
16:17What are we having?
16:19The only thing I know how to cook.
16:21Egg and soldiers.
16:22Nanny taught me?
16:24Of course she did.
16:27And I always serve my boiled eggs
16:30with Paul Roger.
16:39What will your mother think
16:40about you breaking it off
16:41with Mary?
16:45Not very happy, I shouldn't think.
16:47She likes to pretend
16:50we're a model family,
16:52which is frankly delusional.
16:58Your parents divorced?
17:00Mm-hmm.
17:02I was 11.
17:04What happened?
17:05Uh, my father had an affair.
17:12With a waitress.
17:14Half his age.
17:18And she got pregnant.
17:21Had an abortion.
17:22And, you know, she died.
17:28Christ.
17:29They accused him of procuring the drugs.
17:31You know, he was a GP.
17:37They tried him for murder.
17:40He was acquitted.
17:41The judge said there was
17:42no case to answer.
17:49Yeah, he went back to his
17:50medical practice,
17:51his golf.
17:53But our family
17:55was poisoned.
17:57I'm so sorry.
18:18Are these
18:42love bites?
18:47Who?
18:47Who is she?
18:49Jealousy doesn't suit you.
18:50Forgotten Carol.
18:52She's married to my best friend.
18:54Which is exactly why
18:55you'd both do it.
18:56You've got it in for her.
18:58Haven't you?
18:59Because you're an imitation
19:01and she's the real thing.
19:05When you're cross,
19:07the accent slips, darling.
19:09I used to think your sort
19:10had manners.
19:11What a fool I was!
19:13There's nothing going on
19:22with me and David,
19:23hasn't there?
19:23For years.
19:24Expect me to believe that,
19:25the way you are with him.
19:26Both of you, actually.
19:27Stay out of this, aunt.
19:29Take her.
19:29Like leeches, both of you.
19:36The way you follow him around,
19:38fawning over him.
19:38It's embarrassing.
19:40How dare you come to my house
19:42with my child here?
19:43Now, you might have dragged
19:44David into your seeded little world,
19:46but you will not drag me.
19:48And to talk about leeches,
19:50you have been a parasite on David
19:51since the day you met him.
19:52Thinking you could drag yourself up
19:54in the world,
19:54drag your whole scrawled family up.
19:55David is naive.
19:57I'm not.
19:57His friends are not.
19:58We know what you're up to.
20:00It is not like that.
20:03Look, you know what he's like.
20:05You know what he does.
20:09You never did it to me.
20:16This is of your own making, Ruth.
20:18All of it.
20:19And you will be stopped
20:20before you destroy David, too.
20:22Sooner or later,
20:22I will make him see
20:24who and what you are.
20:27You are.
20:29What a predator.
20:31And this is all a trap.
20:33Then you will have
20:34my blood on your hands.
20:35Don't come here again.
20:39Mr. Anthony Findlater,
20:41in the days before
20:42Mr. Blakely's death,
20:43while he was staying with you,
20:44you received several telephone calls
20:47from Mrs. Ellis.
20:49Yes.
20:51Was it quite plain to you
20:52when you spoke to her
20:52on the telephone that she was
20:54in a desperate state of emotion?
20:56No.
20:57Did you observe no indication
20:59that she was a very desperate woman
21:01at the time?
21:02David, I knew you were in that!
21:04David!
21:08No.
21:09Was it obvious to you
21:10that she was in a state
21:12of considerable emotional disturbance?
21:17I didn't get that impression.
21:20She might have been.
21:21On the Saturday night,
21:23did you and Blakely come out of the house
21:25with a young woman?
21:26I believe it was your nanny.
21:31I do not remember.
21:32You will appreciate
21:36what is being suggested.
21:39That there is some reason
21:42for Ruth Ellis being jealous
21:44of some new woman on the scene.
21:48I did not even know
21:49that Mrs. Ellis knew we had a nanny.
21:51Mr. Stevenson.
22:13No further questions.
22:16So that's it?
22:18That's all they're going to ask him?
22:19Put Carol up there.
22:23It's too late.
22:24Put Carol in the witness box
22:26and ask her
22:27about the weeks leading up
22:28to David's death.
22:29Ask her what she did to my baby.
22:36What did she do?
22:40We can't call Carol,
22:41but you can tell them.
22:43This jury,
22:44they want your blood.
22:47To them young men,
22:48you're not a person.
22:49You're a character
22:50and a story.
22:51A cold-blooded murderer
22:53is in a cheap thriller
22:54they've read before
22:55and they know the ending.
22:57Change the story.
23:00Give them a different ending.
23:01Make them want to save your life.
23:03man in a committed suicide,
23:05you're a mother's mother,
23:17they'll be like,
23:18you got my love.
23:23True."
23:24I am As ì‚°ì±…ed.
23:25Good morning.
23:25I am gone.
23:27I am an ex- Building America.
23:28I am an ex- escrever company.
23:29I am a fedographer.
23:29I am an ex-training Mexican man,
23:30I am an ex-founder of an echo mine profit.
23:31David Blakely was living with you in a flat which you occupied above the little club.
23:45Yes.
23:46Were you at that time doing your best to build up the business of the club?
23:52My one concern was to build up the business, which had been a failure beforehand.
23:57And at that time, were you very much in love with it?
24:01Did you tell him that you wanted to break off the relationship with him?
24:15David.
24:18Yes.
24:19Stop.
24:19Stop.
24:21I want you to go.
24:23I want you to pack your things and go tonight.
24:28Stop.
24:29God, it's not even...
24:30Cheating and the violence.
24:33It's nothing new.
24:34It's the fact that you let those malicious snobs think that I'm the one taking advantage of you.
24:38How did he treat you physically?
24:40I want you to leave.
24:42I want you to get out now.
24:46He was violent on occasions.
24:48I found this in your bedside table.
24:58It's his.
25:01Isn't it?
25:07And how did that violence manifest itself?
25:09He only used to hit me with his fist and hands.
25:15But I bruise very easily.
25:19What effect did all this have on you?
25:30I began to feel ill about the whole thing.
25:43While this was going on, what was happening to your own earnings at the club?
25:47David?
25:48David?
25:48David?
25:50They were deteriorating.
25:52And so was the business.
25:54Don't you ever come down here looking like that again?
25:56No wonder this place is bloody empty!
26:03David!
26:05David!
26:06David, step away from the road!
26:07I'll do it, I swear.
26:10If you leave me, I'll do it.
26:11David, step away from the road.
26:13Please, please!
26:14Now, all this time you and he were living together at the club, had he any money?
26:20I had to give him money all the time.
26:22Bought his clothes and things.
26:24I paid his drinks bills and things.
26:27My stepfather's ready to cut me off.
26:30He'll be over for me.
26:33The racing.
26:34There's nothing else I can do.
26:36It's not like I haven't tried.
26:38I'm just useless.
26:40You all right?
26:41My father's inheritance is gone.
26:44It's all right.
26:45My family are gone.
26:46My mother are gone.
26:46He speaks to me.
26:48How did David then behave toward you?
26:51He was possessive and jealous.
26:56He seemed...
26:57I thought he seemed devoted to me.
27:01Please don't leave me.
27:06Look at you.
27:08What happened to your feelings from then on?
27:10He was a very likable person.
27:13I got very attached to him.
27:15Marry me.
27:19I'm already married.
27:21Then divorce him.
27:25What about your family?
27:26I don't care about them.
27:27I will never have any happiness unless you marry me.
27:36This is a photograph that Blakely gave you.
27:43Yes.
27:52Yes.
27:53Did he write on it in your presence?
27:59Yes.
28:01To Ruth.
28:04All my love.
28:08David.
28:08David.
28:08My lord, I wonder if she might sit down.
28:22Yes, certainly.
28:26Quite all right.
28:27Do, by all means.
28:29I don't need to sit down.
28:30And then two weeks before David's death, did you find that you were pregnant?
28:40Yes.
28:42What happened about it?
28:43Well, he got into a fight.
28:48David got very violent.
28:55He thumped me in the tummy.
28:58I do not know if that's what caused the miscarriage or not, though.
29:01You, uh, had a, a miscarriage?
29:15Yes.
29:22And we've heard the evidence about you taking the revolver and getting a cab to Hampstead and shooting him, is that right?
29:29Quite correct.
29:44Why did you do it?
29:45I don't really know, quite seriously.
29:48I was just very upset.
29:50I do not really know why I shot him.
29:54Is that right?
29:57Yes.
29:59Mrs. Ellis, when you fired that revolver at close range into the body of David Blakely,
30:21what did you intend to do?
30:23It is quite obvious when I shot him, I intended to kill him.
30:28I hope they appreciated the suit.
30:54It's a real astrocan, you know?
30:57What was that?
30:58What was what?
30:59In the witness box.
31:02You looked embarrassed.
31:04You looked bald.
31:08It became perfectly clear none of this is going to do any good.
31:11What were you going to tell them about what the Fingletters did, about the miscarriage?
31:20Thank you for securing my hair appointment.
31:22I know the prison were rather difficult about it.
31:24I think they thought I was going to drink the bleach.
31:27No chance, not least before I got my roots done.
31:29Oh, for God's sake, Ruth.
31:32Make these people understand what you've been through.
31:36Tell them about whatever it was the Fingletters did.
31:39Well, tell me at least.
31:41No one wants to hear about my insides.
31:44The jury don't.
31:45Stevenson certainly doesn't.
31:46And I know you think you do, but you don't.
31:48No one wants to hear about women bleeding and what men do to make them bleed.
31:53It's all a little bit embarrassing for everyone.
31:55It's certainly not going to get me off a murder charge.
32:01They believed Ant, you see, in his lies.
32:08We should have told the police about Cousin's involvement.
32:15You've purged yourself in the witness box.
32:19And I allowed it.
32:25You've condemned yourself.
32:44So what follows, Dr. Whitaker,
32:46as to the effect of infidelity by the male partner on the female mind?
32:51Women are more prone to hysterical reactions than men.
32:56They are inclined to lose some of their inhibitory capacity
32:59and solve their problems on a more primitive level.
33:04You're jealous, please.
33:19In your view,
33:21had the accused considered
33:22the consequences
33:23of what she was doing?
33:26Well, I asked her if she thought
33:28about her children.
33:30She said she did not think of them at all.
33:32All right.
33:45Now, you'll be good for Daddy, okay?
33:53I'll call tonight to see how she's settling in.
33:55Give it a few days, eh?
33:57My solicitor will be in touch
33:59about the divorce proceedings.
34:00Thank you, Dr. Whitaker.
34:09You may step down.
34:15That is my case, my lord.
34:19Before you address the jury,
34:21it would be as well
34:22if we had a short discussion as to the law.
34:26You may release the jury until tomorrow morning.
34:28I gather you wish to address the jury
34:41as to the question of provocation.
34:45I do, my lord.
34:47There has to be some conduct,
34:49as they're not,
34:49on the part of the deceased man
34:50which caused this unfortunate result.
34:52What is the evidence of conduct
34:55on Blakely's part
34:56which is considered to amount to provocation?
34:59May I be absolutely frank about that, my lord?
35:02The answer is that
35:03there is no authority,
35:07no authority
35:08that has ever considered
35:09the effects on the female mind
35:11of infidelity.
35:12Does your proposition come to this?
35:14If a man associates with a woman
35:17and then leaves her suddenly
35:19and she is a jealous woman,
35:22emotionally disturbed,
35:23and goes out and shoots him,
35:26that is sufficient grounds for the jury
35:28to reduce the crime of murder
35:30to manslaughter?
35:32Mr. Bigfoot.
35:46A single day to hear all the evidence
35:48in a murder trial.
35:51Why did nobody ask about the gun?
35:54I'm sorry?
35:55Well, I know she lied about how she got it.
35:57There was never any gun left
35:58at the club as security.
35:59I told the police,
36:00but nobody seemed to care.
36:01And what about that black cab
36:05that was never found?
36:07You know Desmond Carson
36:08used to drive a black cab for fun?
36:11Is it him?
36:13Did he help her?
36:14I don't know.
36:31It's not true, is it?
36:34It's not too late.
36:35You can get her back.
36:36The three of you,
36:37you can all
36:38live with me.
36:41I know you think you can save me,
36:44but it's just a sweet fantasy
36:46to distract from the sordid truth,
36:48which is that you are a lonely drunk
36:50and I am a hostess
36:52whose company you pay for.
36:54Why are you doing this, Ruth?
36:59Because I love him.
37:03I will save you.
37:08Whether you want me to or not.
37:10I am a hostess.
37:23I am a hostess.
37:25I am a hostess.
37:28I am a hostess.
37:29I am a hostess.
37:31It's exactly what you do.
37:31You are a hostess.
37:33It is my duty as a judge, as a matter of law, to direct the jury that the evidence in this
37:53case does not support a verdict of manslaughter on the grounds of provocation.
37:58My lord, in view of that ruling, it does not seem that it would be proper for me to address
38:04the jury at all.
38:05It does not seem to me that there is any issue left on which you could address the jury.
38:11No, my lord.
38:13I am obliged.
38:18In the circumstances, my lord, I have nothing more to say.
38:23Members of the jury, according to our law, it is no defense for a woman who is charged
38:39with the murder of her lover to prove she was a jealous woman and had been badly treated
38:45by her lover, and after he left her without warning, she became furious with him and formed
38:52an intention to kill him.
38:54None of these facts, individually or collectively, afford any defense.
39:02Shame on you!
39:04All of you!
39:06I need to talk to you about Ruth Elise and Desmond Cassin.
39:30Jury's back.
39:45Fourteen minutes.
39:59Members of the jury, are you agreed upon your verdict?
40:03We are.
40:04Do you find Ruth Ellis guilty or not guilty of murder?
40:14Guilty.
40:19Guilty.
40:28Prisoner at the bar, you stand convicted of murder.
40:32Have you anything to say before judgment of death is passed, according to law?
40:38WISH Science Now
40:54Ruth Ellis,
40:56the jury has convicted you of murder.
40:59In my view, it was the only verdict possible.
41:05You will be taken hence to the prison in which you were last confined,
41:10and from there to a place of execution,
41:15where you will suffer death by hanging.
41:20And thereafter your body buried within the precincts of the prison.
41:25And may the Lord have mercy on your soul.
41:28Amen.
41:29Thanks.
41:51Thank you, Edward. Went better than expected.
41:54See you outside.
42:03Is that man your junior treasury counsel?
42:05That's correct.
42:06That's correct.
42:09Edward Cousin.
42:12Is he related to Desmond Cousin?
42:15They are cousins.
42:19That's why you call Desmond as a witness, isn't it?
42:24To protect him from other accusations,
42:28such as conspiracy to murder.
42:31Do you know much about Buddhism, Mr. Bickford?
42:35I've practiced it for 30 years,
42:38and one of its teachings is that we are all responsible
42:42for our own liberation.
42:45Ruth Ellis knows this.
42:48No one else, no judge or jury, no friend,
42:52has put her in her present position.
42:54It is her own actions that have done so.
42:59That is karma.
43:04I shall be starting the reprieve case immediately.
43:14Well, we did the best we could for her.
43:19No.
43:21No, we did not.
43:22This whole process has been a disgrace.
43:25A sham.
43:27I'm going to fight for her to be reprieved.
43:30Do things differently, as they should have been done.
43:33Desmond's cousin is in the same chambers as Christmas Humphries.
43:38He's a bloody silk.
43:41You knew about Desmond?
43:50Edward Custon and I worked together during the war.
43:55Jesus Christ.
43:57You're all just together.
44:00Of course, that's why you didn't cross-examine.
44:05They asked you to protect him.
44:07No.
44:08No, they didn't.
44:11Look, dragging somebody else into bed wouldn't have helped.
44:16Wouldn't have helped at all.
44:18A woman like her.
44:21They were never going to let her off.
44:24She deserves clemency for what she suffered.
44:27And I will fight for that.
44:29You're to be moved.
44:34I'm going to be moved.
45:04Ms.
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