17/11/2020
It was around ten months ago that we reported that authorities in the US had recovered some artefacts associated with the great gay mathemetician and computer scientist, Alan Turing, whose intelligence work at Bletchly Park for the British government helped bring the Allies a decisive victory over the fascist Axis powers in 1945, are to be returned to his school. The items, including his PhD diploma, his OBE medal and a letter from King George the Sixth, were illegally taken by an American woman who later claimed to be related to Turing and whose theft was only found out when she offered to loan her stash to Colorado based University. Mr Turing's old school, which is Sherbourne in Dorset, has now confirmed that the items seized from the woman will be returned to the school and that they will in due course go on display. Pink News noted that Turing, whose harsh treatment by the government and NHS because of his sexual orientation has been the subject of campaigns over the years, will now be honoured with an image on the new fifty pound notes, due to enter circulation in late 2021.
