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When is the government and @ShabanaMahmood going to step in and order an Inquiry into the Single Justice Procedure?
The stench of mistakes, mismanagement and injustice within this shady court process is getting ever stronger.
Sparkenhoe Red Leicester would give it a zing
This is awful - I am so sorry this is happening to you.
When you go into your local pub, the bar area goes silent - there are locals and visitors, I buy a takeaway and have a talk with one villager and the rest ignored me.
Extraordinary that the exoneration of my father hasn’t lifted the stigma completely yet.
#PostOfficeScandal
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Some people are much more anxious about the score than you are…
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#DomesticViolence
#EnglandEuro2024
Can we stop pretending this a fairytale exit?
England’s greatest-ever has been pushed out, despite clearly still being good enough.
Even then, he’s not done it on his own terms.
Anderson’s last test should’ve been at OT, not a place where you’re scoffed at for clapping.
They’re the ones who have broken up with him!
Proper gaslighting stuff this!
Get rid of Botham - superlative cricketer but not a legislator or others with no pedigree in skills as a Lord eg Charlotte Owens etc rather than proven stars who can add value like Lord Winston
3,671 years.
That’s the combined Lords experience of life peers over the age of 80.
So, if Labour goes ahead with their plan to remove them, who exactly will they be kicking out?
A thread. 🧵
Ms Symond's wardrobe by Chanel of Paris.
Mr Johnson's wardrobe by B&M of Cleckheaton.
Woman of the Day nightclub hostess Ruth Ellis, born in 1926 in Rhyl, died OTD in 1955 at HM Prison Holloway, the last woman to be executed by hanging in Britain. Her death prompted a public debate about capital punishment. This is not an easy read so fortify yourself with a cuppa if you decide to read on.
Ruth’s family moved often when she was a child. They changed surnames often too. There are all sorts of possible reasons for this but one thing is certain. Her father preyed on and sexually abused Ruth from the age of eleven - she tried to fight back - as well as her elder sister Muriel who bore his child when she was 14. As a result of his unorthodox relationship with another young girl and his own predatory behaviour, Ruth had a very early introduction to alcohol and men.
Pregnant at 17 to a married Canadian soldier, she ended up in dead-end factory jobs to support herself and her baby daughter. Not long after, the teenaged Ruth started nude modelling, followed by escort work, and at age 24, nightclub hostess. During the period leading up to, during, and after her trial for the shooting of David Blakeley in April 1955, she was excoriated in the national press for her “lifestyle”, her looks, and her working class background.
Why are abused women drawn into relationships with abusive men? You’ll have your own thoughts and I have mine, but when Ruth married in 1950, her husband was a violent alcoholic 16 years older than her who knocked her around and refused to acknowledge he was the father of her second daughter. They split up. On the breadline again, Ruth started selling herself to make enough to get by.
She tried to improve her chances by taking etiquette and elocution classes and was promoted to nightclub manager in 1953 when she was 27. This brought her into contact with celebrities and people with money. That’s how she met David Blakely, a privately educated racing driver - and a promiscuous bisexual and violent alcoholic. He was engaged at the time. Ruth herself was also in a relationship with Desmond Cussen, another alcoholic. None of this is promising, is it?
In January, 1955, Blakely punched Ruth in the stomach so hard that she miscarried. She often gave him money to placate him. He would often attack her when he was drunk. “He would smack my face and punch me…[and once] lost all control. His fist struck me between the eyes and I fell to the floor. Savagely he beat me as I lay there.”
On 10 April 1955, Ruth went to a Hampstead pub where Blakely was drinking with friends. When he and a friend left the pub at 9.30pm, Ruth took a revolver out of her handbag and shot him five times, three times in the back. A sixth shot ricocheted and took off the thumb of a bystander.
An off-duty police officer ran outside to find Ruth standing next to Blakely’s body. She said, “Phone the police.” Arrested and taken to the police station, she said, “I am guilty: I am rather confused. It all started about two years ago” and thanked the Detective Chief Inspector when she was charged.
You know the rest. Less than three months later, Ruth Ellis stood trial at the Old Bailey for his murder. When asked by Christmas Humphreys, counsel for the prosecution, why she had shot him, she infamously said, “It’s obvious when I shot him I intended to kill him."
It took 23 minutes for the jury to return a guilty verdict for murder, a capital offence.
The Manchester Evening News reported, “And as Mr. Justice Havers put on the black cap, Mrs. Ellis, the mother of two children, turned to the prison nurse standing beside her and smiled gently. Then she turned and, with a wardress’s hand under her arm, walked calmly down the steps to the death cell.”
Within two days, her execution date was fixed for Wednesday, July 13, at Holloway Prison. Her only chance of reprieve lay in the hands of the Home Secretary who was “set to study all the papers in the case.” There was no reprieve.
At Holloway, Ruth was woken at 8.30am on 13 July 1955, refused food but accepted a glass of brandy from a woman prison officer. Accompanied by the prison governor, the prison doctor, a chaplain and the executioner, she was led to the place of execution. Prison staff described her as “the calmest woman who has gone to the gallows.” The Coventry Evening Telegraph reported: “Women wept and others prayed outside Holloway Prison”.
Ruth was 28.
Did she deserve to die? Again, you’ll have your own thoughts and I have mine. What I will tell you is that I knew the prison officer who gave her that glass of brandy. I worked with her many years later. She had been on what we called the death watch - sitting with a condemned prisoner throughout the night in her cell - and never spoke of it except to say one thing. She had gone into that cell the night before strongly in favour of capital punishment. She came out the next morning vehemently opposed to it.
Ruth’s words: “Only a woman who had led a similar life to mine could understand how I was irresistibly compelled to do what I did.”
![TheAttagirls's tweet photo. Woman of the Day nightclub hostess Ruth Ellis, born in 1926 in Rhyl, died OTD in 1955 at HM Prison Holloway, the last woman to be executed by hanging in Britain. Her death prompted a public debate about capital punishment. This is not an easy read so fortify yourself with a cuppa if you decide to read on.
Ruth’s family moved often when she was a child. They changed surnames often too. There are all sorts of possible reasons for this but one thing is certain. Her father preyed on and sexually abused Ruth from the age of eleven - she tried to fight back - as well as her elder sister Muriel who bore his child when she was 14. As a result of his unorthodox relationship with another young girl and his own predatory behaviour, Ruth had a very early introduction to alcohol and men.
Pregnant at 17 to a married Canadian soldier, she ended up in dead-end factory jobs to support herself and her baby daughter. Not long after, the teenaged Ruth started nude modelling, followed by escort work, and at age 24, nightclub hostess. During the period leading up to, during, and after her trial for the shooting of David Blakeley in April 1955, she was excoriated in the national press for her “lifestyle”, her looks, and her working class background.
Why are abused women drawn into relationships with abusive men? You’ll have your own thoughts and I have mine, but when Ruth married in 1950, her husband was a violent alcoholic 16 years older than her who knocked her around and refused to acknowledge he was the father of her second daughter. They split up. On the breadline again, Ruth started selling herself to make enough to get by.
She tried to improve her chances by taking etiquette and elocution classes and was promoted to nightclub manager in 1953 when she was 27. This brought her into contact with celebrities and people with money. That’s how she met David Blakely, a privately educated racing driver - and a promiscuous bisexual and violent alcoholic. He was engaged at the time. Ruth herself was also in a relationship with Desmond Cussen, another alcoholic. None of this is promising, is it?
In January, 1955, Blakely punched Ruth in the stomach so hard that she miscarried. She often gave him money to placate him. He would often attack her when he was drunk. “He would smack my face and punch me…[and once] lost all control. His fist struck me between the eyes and I fell to the floor. Savagely he beat me as I lay there.”
On 10 April 1955, Ruth went to a Hampstead pub where Blakely was drinking with friends. When he and a friend left the pub at 9.30pm, Ruth took a revolver out of her handbag and shot him five times, three times in the back. A sixth shot ricocheted and took off the thumb of a bystander.
An off-duty police officer ran outside to find Ruth standing next to Blakely’s body. She said, “Phone the police.” Arrested and taken to the police station, she said, “I am guilty: I am rather confused. It all started about two years ago” and thanked the Detective Chief Inspector when she was charged.
You know the rest. Less than three months later, Ruth Ellis stood trial at the Old Bailey for his murder. When asked by Christmas Humphreys, counsel for the prosecution, why she had shot him, she infamously said, “It’s obvious when I shot him I intended to kill him."
It took 23 minutes for the jury to return a guilty verdict for murder, a capital offence.
The Manchester Evening News reported, “And as Mr. Justice Havers put on the black cap, Mrs. Ellis, the mother of two children, turned to the prison nurse standing beside her and smiled gently. Then she turned and, with a wardress’s hand under her arm, walked calmly down the steps to the death cell.”
Within two days, her execution date was fixed for Wednesday, July 13, at Holloway Prison. Her only chance of reprieve lay in the hands of the Home Secretary who was “set to study all the papers in the case.” There was no reprieve.
At Holloway, Ruth was woken at 8.30am on 13 July 1955, refused food but accepted a glass of brandy from a woman prison officer. Accompanied by the prison governor, the prison doctor, a chaplain and the executioner, she was led to the place of execution. Prison staff described her as “the calmest woman who has gone to the gallows.” The Coventry Evening Telegraph reported: “Women wept and others prayed outside Holloway Prison”.
Ruth was 28.
Did she deserve to die? Again, you’ll have your own thoughts and I have mine. What I will tell you is that I knew the prison officer who gave her that glass of brandy. I worked with her many years later. She had been on what we called the death watch - sitting with a condemned prisoner throughout the night in her cell - and never spoke of it except to say one thing. She had gone into that cell the night before strongly in favour of capital punishment. She came out the next morning vehemently opposed to it.
Ruth’s words: “Only a woman who had led a similar life to mine could understand how I was irresistibly compelled to do what I did.”](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GSWO1BFWMAE2NHo.jpg)
@englandcricket Then why are you dropping him you clowns!
And for all the open-air theatre coming up this summer - from @progresstheatre, @mikrontheatre, @SISATA1 and @60HrShakespeare, head to https://t.co/Ch9JIo0b2p
5/5
*first male manager. #Lionesses
The post was deleted. The Beth Mead effect 👏
England are soooo boring
I’ve seen this look before (normally in the queue for a McDonalds)…
I know everyone is concentrating on the seat declarations but can we circle back tomorrow to discuss the peerage for Chris Grayling? Literally a peerage for screwing up every department he touched.
I was thinking of watching Channel 4's election coverage, but it's got Nadine Dorries on it.
❌ We NEVER want to see a sign like this ever again. ❌
The next government has the power to make that happen.
They can end the need for food banks.
Brilliant from Jason Beer !! How did he keep his face straight.
#PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #StateScandal #StateCoverUp
Barrister of the Year and Counsel to the Inquiry Jason Beer KC, flags an amusing faux pas in Tim Parker's Witness Statement 🤣
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