Who was Ruth Ellis’ son Andy? [Video]

CLARE Andrea “Andy” Neilson was the son of Ruth Ellis – the last woman to be hanged in England. 

His mother’s crime and shocking execution are dramatised in the ITV series A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis story. 

Andy was born on September 15, 1944, in Cumberland. 

He was the son of Ellis and a Canadian soldier, Clare Andrea McCallum, who was married to another woman. 

Andy often lived with his grandmother as a child, while Ruth worked various jobs to support him. 

His father had stopped sending money just a year after he was born. 

Ellis eventually began working as a nightclub manager in Knightsbridge, London, while also working as an escort. 

She had a daughter with a divorced dentist named George Johnston Ellis, with whom she gave birth to Georgina…