urdered racing driver and motor engineer David Blakely. Model Ruth Ellis, of Egerton Gardens, Kensington, in London, has been charged with the killing. 16/09/03: The tempestuous and violent nature of Ruth Ellis's relationship with David Blakely which led to her gunning him down were revealed in documents from the time of her trial. Friend Jacqueline Dyer, who worked at the same Knightsbridge club as Ellis, revealed that Blakely 'beat her unmercifully'. In a letter to the then Home Secretary Gwilym Lloyd-George, she said the most surprising thing about the shooting was that it was Ellis who pulled the trigger, not Blakely.
