The latter isn't correct or at least incomplete on two accounts: - The investigators and prosecutors are dependent on the government. - A judge sentences, but

The latter isn't correct or at least incomplete on two accounts: - The investigators and prosecutors are dependent on the government. - A judge sentences, but doesn't carry out the punishment. But certainly the initiative to investigate and prosecute Turing did directly come from the government. It was after all the PM who apologized for it.