Turing the Hero
Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 5:37 am
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12266109
65. Kevin Robson
27th January 2011 - 14:14
Turing was a hero of this country. His name should be as famous as Churchill, Montgomery, Dowding and Harris and yet we treated him despicably. Reporting a casual lover to the police for theft, rather than receive justice, was prosecuted for the, then, crime of homosexuality, offered imprisonment or chemical castration, took the latter and that led to his suicide. His memory needs to be honoured.