Desc: Rough Justice: With Ruth Alfie Adams, David Tarpey, Kirsty Wark. Drama Documentary Ruth Ellis: A Life for a Life (first broadcast 28 November 1999) - Presented by Kirsty Walk. A reinvestigation and full drama reconstruction of the trial and conviction of Ruth Ellis revealing evidence which was ignored by the authorities and which might have saved her from the gallows where she became the last woman hanged in Britain.