Actually, Arnold Murray, the man he had a homosexual relationship with was 19 years old and he was a blackmailer, so hardly an innocent 'working class kid'. Even the right-wing Daily Mail has acknowledged these facts:
'...Unfortunately, it was in Manchester that Turing's life began to unravel - for it was here, outside a cinema in January 1952, that he met a 19-year-old called Arnold Murray.
He was invited to Turing's modest Victorian home in Wilmslow, Cheshire, several times over the following weeks, spending at least one night there.
But Murray was to betray him. A friend of the young man burgled Turing's house, confident that the mathematician would never press charges for fear of being 'outed' as a homosexual, and well aware that in 1952 more than 1,600 men had been charged under the draconian 1885 Act.
But Murray and his friend misjudged Turing. He not only reported the crime to the police, but also confessed to a sexual relationship with Murray.
And so, in March 1952, he was given the choice of one year's imprisonment, or probation on the condition that he accepted chemical castration. Turing opted for the hormone injections, which took place every week for a year.
They transformed his body. The man who had run a marathon in 2 hours and 46 minutes - when the world record was 2 hours and 25 minutes - was reduced to a shadow of his former self. 'They've given me breasts,' he was reported to have said to a friend, describing the shameful process as 'horrible' and 'humiliating'...'
Shortly afterwards Turing committed suicide. Given that without his revolutionary cryptanalysis work we would probably have lost World War II he deserved better.
I stand corrected, but I suspect it wasn’t the first working class young man he just casually met on the street and invited home, but never mind. There are signals for such things in the gay community so maybe he wasn’t grooming a kid for abuse.
Leonardo DaVinci stupped young boys, as did Aristotle and Plato. And at the time Turing was “cruising” there was a gay clique of men who became spies for the Soviets, and no one bothered about their picadillos.