A man he met and with whom he was walking alongside the water were confronted by police. It turned out that the man he met was a burglar. Police arrested and the burglar and Turing both. In his interrogation with the police Alan Turing answered honestly that he was a homosexual.

Britain considered then homosexuality to be a crime. Alan Turing went to jail. There he became despondent and depressed. Not long afterward he experienced defamation of his character. Then he was found dead in his bed. There was a half-eaten apple left upon his bedside table.

Despite the apple or anything else being inspected his death was determined as suicide by cyanide poisoning. He had also been exposed to poisons working in laboratories. Decades passed for the 'crime" to be repealed. The 50 pound note was printed with his image to honor his life.

In many schools across the world we are never taught about the defamation of his character and what it did to a quiet, gentle person. He is remembered now as a genius and a hero across the world despite governments still considering sexuality a crime.

Alan Turing died alone and depressed even though he changed the world for good. He was demolished as a human and deemed a criminal even with advocates as strong as Winston Churchill. Even the USA where he worked too believed and others still do that good people can be gay.

Later Apple Computers was asked many times if they had based their Apple logo on the Apple from the bedside table where Alan Turing died. Apple never answered until finally near his own demise Steve Jobs at lazt expressed a wish they had thought of it at all but they never had.

happy to retcon a rainbow apple with a bite out of it as a (sad) nod Turing

I know John is so horrible this is why I felt compelled to do something like this it never ceases to confound me how people even come up with this shit. And it begs the question who really are the criminals in such situations?

there's a wonderful stage play, 'breaking the code' I saw earlier this year-there was a TV version in 1986–it captured Turing's personality, often played as robotic and tortured as a much lighter more engaging person (which nay all accounts he was)

In Cyptonomicon @nealstephenson also captures this aspect of his personality