Rejected petition Alan Turing: Call for a full pardon

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We ask HMG, to provide a posthumous pardon for Alan Turing, one of the most brilliant mathematicians of the modern era.

Through his astonishing code breaking work at Bletchley Park, during the Second World War, and the computer science legacy he left to the world.

It is time his reputation was unblemished.

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Date submitted 14 December 2012
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