Alan Turing: Scientists call for pardon for codebreaker

[Craig]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20722581

 

Some of Britain's leading scientists have called on the government to grant a posthumous pardon to Bletchley Park codebreaker Alan Turing.

 

Turing was convicted of gross indecency in 1952 after acknowledging a sexual relationship with a man.

 

Professor Stephen Hawking, Astronomer Royal Lord Rees and the Royal Society's Sir Paul Nurse are among 11 signatories to a letter in the Daily Telegraph.

 

They urge David Cameron to "formally forgive this British hero".

 

The scientists said: "We write in support of a posthumous pardon for Alan Turing, one of the most brilliant mathematicians of the modern era.

 

And so they bloody well should. This hero of Britain was only treated this way because of outdated views, the very views that are being fought now over because of gay marriage proposals.

[BAZ]

Damn right. Pardon without any further delay, the man's a hero.