On: Gordon Brown apologises to Alan Turing

[J_McQuade]

Actually, the Secretary of State for Justice has the power to grant a royal pardon, and notably exercised it just the other day:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_of_Michael_Shields#R...

[pmjoyce → J_McQuade]

I think tesseract was right. Jack Straw's quote:

"... I have recommended to Her Majesty the Queen that he should be granted a free pardon and she has graciously assented."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/8245760.stm