Ton up for Pat who broke ageing code

A FORMER teenage codebreaker who worked with Alan Turing has celebrated hitting three figures at a party with friends and family.

- BY JAMES PODESTA

Pat Shepherd joined the "Wrens" at Bletchley Park in 1943 having been chosen as one of the brilliant minds that would crack the Enigma code.

She was just 18 at the time and went on to be part of the team working on Japanese ciphers from their base in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, two years later.