Letter: Turing's suicide

Mr James Rusbridger
Friday 05 February 1993 00:02 GMT
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Sir: Further to Alec Vans's letter (3 February), one of our greatest codebreakers in the last war, Alan Turing, was a homosexual, but the police did not concern themselves about this until after the war when, it has been alleged, their harassment led to his suicide.

Yours faithfully,

JAMES RUSBRIDGER

Lanivet, Cornwall

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