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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Grant Alan Turing a postumous pardon for his homosexual conviction in the 1950's. More details
Submitted by Howard Timmis of n/a – Deadline to sign up by: 09 October 2007 – Signatures: 152
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Alan Turing, the acclaimed mathematician, creator of Colossus and the Enigma code breaking efforts that gave this country the code breaking capabilities that helped Britain, and our allies, win the 2nd World War, and created/assisted in the precursor to the technology behind the modern GCHQ after the war, a postumous pardon for being criminalised for his homosexuality. Albeit 'illegal' at the time. Importantly, a public government apology for committing him to compulsory injections of oestrogen (&/or other female hormones) that affected his physical appearance and mental ability that caused him to commit suicide in 1954.This action was reminiscent of the Nazi regime that we had just defeated, in large part assisted by him and his codebreakers!
Current signatories
Howard Timmis, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- Hermann Kaser
- Carole Lee
- Phil Bradbury
- Graham Southern
- Keith West
- Andrew Pritchard
- Kevin Marks
- Steve Bassett
- Kevin Gutherson - FBU
- Raymond Winslow
- Michelle Farley
- Thomas Pirovano
- Geraldine Minshull
- Christopher Durkin
- Steve Webb
- Matthe Coverley
- Tiffanie Wells
- Stephanie Gray
- James Dowling
- Catherine Ashton
- Nicholas Gage
- Andrew Burgess
- Edmund O'Connor
- Preacher Muad'dib
- David Williams
- Kirsten Conacher
- Thomas Cole
- Michelle Bartsch
- Lorraine Barwell
- Thomas Thurman
- Paul Brown
- Flavio Matani
- Mark Harris
- Jay Owens
- Sharon Irvine
- Sandy Fleming
- Peter Radcliffe
- Alan G Garrett
- Graham Horsman
- Johanna Mead
- Raquel Ramos
- Anji Capes
- Jonathan Reeves
- Beatrice Murch
- Matthew Moran
- Mandi Collingridge
- Marcus Rowland
- Chris Butler
- Ian Renton
- Damian Higgins
- Chris Halliday
- Matthew Jacobs
- Stephen Cowley
- Sue Maynard
- Phil Smith
- Frances Dowd
- David Somers
- Andrew McGregor
- Mark Coletti
- Craig Rintoul
- Nik Whitehad
- Roz Kaveney
- Nicole Walters
- Karen Hetherington
- Robert Beresford
- Fiona Wilson
- Nicholas Patrick Hayes
- Alex Hutter
- Kathleen Dawes
- Dereck Gunn
- James Maidment
- Martin Jenner
- Nat Queen
- Nicholas Stapleton
- Jack Aidley
- Susannah Stapleton
- Cecilia Huster
- Andrew Shackleton
- Amanda Jeffrey
- Mikael Suominen
- Andrew Wong
- Eva-Lise Carlstrom
- Nigel Linnett
- Jennifer Stapleton
- Ellen Phillips
- Karen Francis
- Roger Gammans
- Thomas Hartney
- David Evans
- Pat Carberry FBU
- Shira Sandler Beckett
- Mary Perkins
- s Holyoake
- Daniel Howells
- Alice Chapman
- Heidi Linda
- John Gilbertson
- Sharron Williamson
- Gregory John Knight
- Claire Blackman
- Colin Andress
- DH Harvey
- Eve Friday
- Austin Chamberlain
- Anthony Evershed
- John McGirr
- Renee Dekenah
- Mr. Oliver James Keenan
- Brandon Barnes
- Esther Galfalvi
- Mark Ferry
- Felix Sermon
- Peter Riches BSc (Hons) MBA
- Lisa Ward
- Iain Walters
- C. Borgonovo
- Fiona Potter
- Kirsty Hall
- Shaun Ankers
- Stephen Barber
- Carl Burnell
- Donal Heath
- Chirs Phillips
- John Maguire
- Antony Sillett
- Chris Lord
- Dan Morbin
- christian waller
- Jack Grange
- Genna Yeo
- Michelle Hogg
- Amy Slater
- David Edward Askey
- Tom Wright
- David Du Cros
- James Kinsman
- Juliet Kemp
- Ian Woods
- Jonathan Martin
- John Burrows
- Thomas Stones
- Paul James Penney
- Professor Tom Quinn
- Paul Janik, Slough Party
- Mark Cosgrove
- gary trotter
- The compulsory injections were an appalling abuse of his human rights!
- Andrew Sowden
- Stuart Leather
- Susan Sims
- Dawn Henderson
