http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/alan-turing-law-government-pardon-rachel-barnes-historic-crimes-a7370621.html ‘Alan Turing law’ unveiled by government Alan Turing with "Collosus" and the "Enigma"cipher machine. Alan Turing died in 1954. At the time, his death was recorded as suicide, but then and since there have been doubts raised as to the actual cause and the most likely explanation is that the death was accidental. The sentence that Turing received in 1952, a choice between imprisonment or chemical castration for the "crime" of gross indecency has long been considered as barbaric, being a reflection of "society attitude" towards the LGBT community in the United Kingdom at that time. It is now reported that the government is at last intending to introduce the necessary amendments to the Policing and Crime bill, which will effectively act as an apology to those convicted for consensual same-sex relationsh...