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Codebreaker Alan Turing granted posthumous royal pardon (1m30)
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Codebreaker Alan Turing granted posthumous royal pardon
24 December 2013 Last updated at 07:13 GMT
Computer pioneer and codebreaker Alan Turing has been given a posthumous royal pardon.
It overturns his 1952 conviction for homosexuality for which he was punished by being chemically castrated.
Danny Shaw reports.