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It's interesting to read the author's reasoning on why they don't support a pardon ( http://blog.jgc.org/2011/11/why-im-not-supporting-campaign-f... )

One reason is that there are other people, not just Alan Turing, who were convicted under this law, and are still living. They had a criminal record. However a new Act essentially deletes the criminal conviction for that part, so those people no longer have a criminal record.



Under Rehabilitation of Offenders act do those criminal convictions (surely 'spent' now) have any affect?

Do they make it harder for people to travel to, eg, US ("Moral Turpitude" on visa waiver)? Do they count for job applications?

Certainly many people had their lives destroyed, and lived in fear. Ignorance and bigotry isn't dead either.




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