In a secret document, only recently opened at The National Archives, I read that on 14 June 1962 Mr Justice Widgery approved the application for the Transcript of the Ruth Ellis trial from journalist Duggie Howell. The Transcript was loaned four days later and returned the following year on 17 September.
There are no books or articles about the Ruth Ellis case, written under the name of Duggie Howell, since his interpretion of Ruth Ellis’s lifestory in 1955 which was published in the Woman’s Sunday Mirror .
Why was this journalist given special access to the Trial Transcript in the 1960s, when it was not made available for the general public until the late 1990s?
