What they did to Turing, who apparently only had consensual sex with other adults, was terrible. Turing made major contributions to early computer science. His contributions to the Enigma solution saved many thousands of lives, thousands of them American.
I’m aware of that, but postmortem pardons seem a little redundant to me.
He was picking up teens on Manchester's Oxford Road.
That was infamously an area frequented by runaway teenagers who would sleep with adults in exchange for money, liquor, clothes or even hot meals or ration cards.
The particular person he was caught with that day claimed to be 19.
He was 41.
So we have a military scientist with a top security clearance picking up youngsters on the streets.
Any chance that might have been a bad idea? Potentially a bit of a security risk in cold war Britain? Not to mention disgustingly exploitive of vunerable children?
was it only adults?
I suspect there is more to the story, contribution or not.
judging from recent ivory tower political correctness it was never “just adults”
(see recent conviction fo two adult males who adopted a child and created a horror story life for the child)