Pardon for Enigma code-breaker Alan Turing?
Updated on 19 August 2009
He should have died a hero, instead he died in shame. A campaign is launched to pardon the world war two code-breaker Alan Turing.
He was a scientific genius and father of the modern computer, whose world war two code-breaking helped save British lives.
But the life of Alan Turing ended in tragedy. He was prosecuted for being gay in 1952 and his treatment by the authorities over his sexuality is widely blamed for his suicide at the age of 41.
Now a campaign has been launched for a government to make a formal apology for his treatment - and it is being backed by some of the greatest names in modern science.
Joanna Simpson went to meet some of them.
