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DOCUMENTAR­Y

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ITV, 9pm

YOU might think you’ve seen it all, until you witness exEastEnde­r Sid Owen smearing his entire body in goat’s cheese while sitting in a milk Jacuzzi.

BBC4, 9pm It’s an engaging start to this crime history documentar­y.

With the help of a photograph, filmmaker Gillian Pachter is reconstruc­ting the scene of a tiny bedroom where the dead body of a 37-year-old man was found in 1982.

Named Andre, he had tragically taken his own life, and his body lay undiscover­ed for weeks.

And while you wouldn’t know who he was, his mother was notorious killer Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain.

Her crime was the cold-blooded murder of her lover David Blakely in 1955 – a case that shocked the nation, but which also ultimately contribute­d to the abolition of the death penalty.

In this fascinatin­g series, Gillian examines the case and considers why it still divides opinion on whether Ellis got the sentence she deserved.

The filmmaker also immediatel­y finds glaring holes in the police investigat­ion that brought about Ellis’s downfall. HOT NEWS Gillian with Ellis story IN A LATHER Sid Owen slaps on the goat’s cheese

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