Rejected petition A Royal pardon for Alan Turing.

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There is a huge groundswell of opinion towards giving Alan Turing a pardon for his 1952 conviction for gross indecency in view of the fact that this man did more than most people towards the defeat of Nazi Germany in WW11.

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Date submitted 22 November 2011
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