A pardon for wartime codebreaker Alan Turing, the genius of Bletchley Park convicted of homosexuality in 1952
Saturday, July 20, 2013 - 08:00
in Mathematics & Economics
Wartime codebreaker Alan Turing is set to be pardoned posthumously for his criminal conviction for homosexuality. The Government will not stand in the way of new legislation needed to pardon him and it could be passed within three months, it was confirmed yesterday. While Gor …