More people will be eligible to be pardoned for historical criminal convictions relating to homosexual activity. 🏳️🌈
More people will be eligible for a pardon for historical criminal convictions relating to homosexual activity, the government has said.
And in 2017 so-called "Turing's Law" was passed - named after the wartime codebreaker Alan Turing who was convicted of gross indecency for homosexual acts. It granted automatic posthumous pardons to others who were convicted of sexual acts that are no longer deemed criminal.Image caption,The current law only covers nine former offences included on a specified list, largely focused on the repealed offences of buggery and gross indecency between men.
Earlier this year, fellow peer Lord Lexden said it was "an affront to gay people" that the scheme had not been extended. In the future, the scheme will encompass any repealed or abolished civilian or military offence which was imposed on someone purely for, or due to, consensual same-sex sexual activity.
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