Alan Turing was truly a great man. He changed so many things and if it weren't for him, I would not be blogging this right now. Everyone who opens a word document and types away at a keyboard, or clicks to another tab, or uses any computer system, owes thanks to Turing for these things would not exist if he had not pursued mathematics and cryptology. If it were not for him we might not have won the war if he had not decrypted the Enigma code. Turing's brilliant mind has advanced our technology greatly. Although Turing changed things so deeply, he was punished for loving someone of the same gender. Turing was wronged, and I must say to him, I am sorry for what they had done to you, and thank  you for everything you have done for us. 

On June 8, 1954, Turing's cleaner found him dead. He had died the day before. The cause of death was cyanide poisoning. When the body was found, an apple lay half-eaten beside his bed, although the apple was not tested for cyanide, it was speculated that this was how the fatal dose was consumed. The suspicion was strengthened when his fascination with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was revealed. They determined that he had committed suicide. Turing was cremated at Working Crematorium on June 12 1954. Turing's ashes were scattered there, just as his father's had been.

In January 1952, I started a relationship with Arnold Murray, a 19-year-old unemployed man. I met Murray just before Christmas outside the Regal Cinema when walking down Manchester's Oxford Road and invited him to lunch. On January my house was burgled. Murray told me that the burglar was an acquaintance of his, and I reported the crime to the police. During the investigation I told of my relationship with Murray. During that time homesexual acts were illegal in the United Kingdom, and we were both charged with indecency under Section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885. The trial happened on February 27, where I pleaded "guilty" although I felt no remorse for what I had done. I was given a choice between imprisonment and probation if I agreed to take treatment designed to reduce libdo. I took treatment injection of stilboestrol and oestrogen for one year.

Following my work in the Bell Labs in the US, I chased my idea of electronic enciphering in speech of the telephone system. In the later part of war I moved to work for the Secret Service Radio Security Service at Hanslope park. There I developed further knowledge of electronics with the help of the engineer Donald Bayley. Together we undertook the job of designing and constructing a secure voice communications machine called Delilah.  It was intended to do many things but it wasn't able to be used for long distance radio transmissions and was built too late to be used in the war. Though the system did work, and I demonstrated it to officials by encrypting and decrypting a recording of Winstion Churchill.