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…