Alan Turing has received a posthumous pardon

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One of the greatest code breakers of all time, credited with shortening the Second World War by two years, has been granted a posthumous pardon to clear his name. He was convicted of Gross Indecency in 1952, was chemically castrated because he admitted to being homosexual, he committed suicide two years later at his home in Wilmslow. Justice Secretary Chris Grayling submitted the request for the pardon, he spoke to Allan Beswick on BBC Radio Manchester