In pictures: The road to justice

Conrad Black, the British peer who at the height of his power controlled one of the world’s biggest media empires, was sentenced to 6½ years after being convicted of fraud and obstruction of justice.

The sentence marks the final turn in Lord Black’s rapid fall from being one of the top media executives in the world to being branded a white-collar criminal. The native of Canada, who once counted as friends the brightest minds in politics and business, is now looking at a bleak future in a federal prison, where he will be forced to serve at least 85 per cent of his sentence.