Gordon Brown apologises to gay Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing for 'appalling' persecution
Daily Mail
By Ian Drury
Last updated at 2:53 PM on 11th September 2009
Gordon Brown last night issued a posthumous apology to Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing for the 'appalling' way he was punished for being gay.
The Prime Minister said he was 'deeply sorry' for the inhumane treatment of the Cambridge mathematician  -  53 years after his death.
Thirty thousand people had signed a petition seeking an apology for Mr Turing, who was  credited by Winston Churchill with making the biggest single contribution to the Allied victory in World War II.