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
Alan Turing's family demand pardons for men convicted under anti-gay laws
The family of Wilmslow codebreaker Alan Turing will visit Downing Street today to demand the Government pardons 49,000 other men persecuted like him for their homosexuality.
Turing, whose work cracking the German military codes was vital to the British war effort against Nazi Germany, was convicted in 1952 for gross indecency with a 19-year-old man.
He was given a postumous royal pardon in 2013.
Turing's great-niece and great-niece will hand over the petition, which attracted almost half-a-million signatures.
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