Earlier this month former high-flying gay tycoon, Greg Fisher, the man responsible for the first-ever gay company to be listed on the Australian stock exchange appealed for leniency, when his sentence for drug trafficking was handed down.

The judge conceded slightly and Fisher received a sentence of a non parole period of seven years and four months for charges that carried a maximum of 25 years in prison.

In a letter to Judge Chris Geraghty from the NSW District Court, 41 year-old Fisher, said he had been to “hell and back.”

The letter was an attempt to explain his fall from grace that saw the former Managing Director of Australia’s first gay media and property business, the Satellite Group, become the major player in a drug ring.