Alan Turing given Royal pardon
The family of Wilmslow codebreaker Alan Turing are demanding the Government pardons 49,000 other men persecuted like him for their homosexuality. Turing was given a posthumous royal pardon in 2013
Turing should be pardoned
John Leech, the Liberal Democrat MP for Manchester Withington has been a leading figure in the campaign to pardon Alan Turing.
The gay computer pioneer was convicted of gross indecency in 1952, when homosexual acts were illegal in the UK.
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