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Apple laced with cyanide is an accident ??
Damm what a wild times. I would though, with my quite non-normal, reasoning capabilities it would have been done intentionally to murder someone....
Poor storage of laboratory chemicals is the alternative explanation. While plausible, suicide seems more likely to my eyes.
The story is at least semi-plausible, but Turing also still had friends in the right places (not enough to dig him out of the hole he got himself into with the local plod*) and there was a strong social taboo around suicide.
(* At the time there was good reason to believe that the end of the outlawing of homosexuality was just around the corner, so offering a genuine explanation was not necessarily Turing acting as such a naif as is often portrayed.)
Since Snow White, we all know this wasn't an accident.
Some have speculated that it's the origin of the Apple logo but Jobs confirmed it wasn't.