Wartime codebreaker Alan Turing’s scientific papers sell for £465,000 at auction

Cache of Turing’s work was almost shredded after being discovered in a house clearance in London last year

A cache of Alan Turing’s most important scientific papers have been sold for £465,000 at auction, more than three times their expected sale price, after being saved from the shredder.

It had been estimated that the collection would sell for £150,000 in 13 separate lots but it fetched a total of £465,400 on Tuesday, which is understood to be a record for Turing material.