Wiki has a slightly different account of the conviction. He was not sentenced to chemical castration, though that was the result, the treatment was to reduce t

Wiki has a slightly different account of the conviction. He was not sentenced to chemical castration, though that was the result, the treatment was to reduce the libido. Interestingly Arnold Murray was released on probation. Source is wiki of course so possibilities of inaccuracies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing#Conviction_for_indecency http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing#Conviction_for_inde... Also apparently jail sentences for 'gross indecency' were rarer at the time, "(only 174 of the 746 men convicted of 'gross indecency' in 1951 received prison sentences-typically less than six months)" According to this: http://drvitelli.typepad.com/providentia/2011/04/the-turing-problem.html http://drvitelli.typepad.com/providentia/2011/04/the-turing-...