The beginning of the end. Forced out of Bond Corporation, September 1990.

Hey you! Bond’s good friend Jurg Bollag waves his finger at the camera … then attacks the photographer with his briefcase. The fracas took place outside Bond’s London house in March 1992, a month before Alan’s bankruptcy.

Distraught … Eileen Bond is led away from Perth District Court by a security guard after Alan received a 30-month jail sentence in May 1992.

It’s in the bag. Bond was allowed out of prison to appeal against the Rothwells conviction in July 1992.

Crying in the rain. Bond faces the cameras after his release from Woorooloo Prison in August 1992.

Brain-damaged? Depressed? Alan and Eileen in top form at daughter Jody’s wedding in May 1993, where Alan told reporters he was fit and well after his heart operation.

We’re winning. Alan Bond and lawyer Andrew Fraser.

Bond leaves court after being charged with a $15 million fraud over Manet’s painting La Promenade. He stops to warn me, ‘If you mention Bollag, I’ll sue’.

Upp Hall, the Bonds’ $12.5 million English country mansion.

Susanne and Craig Bond at Susanne’s wedding, July 1993.

Graham Ferguson Lacey, who helped pay Alan’s legal fees.

‘This is a Sunday … please leave … I am calling the police.’ Jurg Bollag, at home in Zug, offers a warm welcome to the author, July 1993

Sorry, can’t stop. John Hatton-Edge, who ran Bond’s Jersey companies, tries to outrun an ABC TV camera crew in July 1993.

In the pink. Bond with Diana Bliss, July 1993, at the first night of Phantom of the Opera in Sydney, looking as fit as a fiddle.

Bond and his lawyers in full flight, January 1994.

Losing it. Bond grabs the mike from TV reporter Ros Thomas and hurls it across a Fremantle car park, December 1993. Alan’s psychologist had just told a court he was suicidal, depressed and unfit to run a corner store.

Remember me?

So you do remember me. A testing moment for Bond outside the Federal Court in Sydney, May 1994. Bond could not recall whether or not he had millions of dollars hidden overseas, but he did remember me.

When the going gets tough, the tough go to hospital. Alan staggers from court in Perth in May 1994, with lawyer Andrew Fraser holding one arm, and psychologist Tim Watson- Munro holding the other. Bond has collapsed on the first day of hearings into whether he is fit to stand trial on the $15 million Manet fraud charges. The court decides he is.

Two bankrupts in a Roller. Jim Byrnes and Alan Bond can’t stop grinning after Dallhold’s creditors vote to do a deal, December 1994.

Secret documents are paraded through Perth by Western Australia’s Director of Public Prosecutions, John McKechnie (left) and his investigator, Joe Lieberfreund, January 1995. The Supreme Court refused to let Bond’s trustee in bankruptcy see them, even though they disclosed a Swiss bank account held ‘by Bollag on behalf of Bond’.

Who’s won? Bond’s trustee in bankruptcy, Bob Ramsay, holds up the $1 million cheque while Alan Bond signs the papers that will release him from bankruptcy.

Free. A beaming Bond finds release from bankruptcy is a cure for all ills.

Get your roubles here. Prince Vladimir D’Jamirze (centre), at home with his brothers, February 1995.

Wedded bliss. Alan and Diana seal it with a kiss, April 1995.

Happy together. Honeymooning on the Gold Coast.

Fit to face trial? Bond running to court for the committal hearing of the Bell fraud charges.

Defiant. Bond at the $15 million Manet fraud trial, August 1996. Found guilty on two charges of fraud and deception, he was sentenced to three years in jail.

Guilty. Bond is driven to prison in a police van after pleading guilty to two charges of defrauding Bell Resources, December 1996. He was sentenced to four years in jail.

Prison picnic. Alan, Diana and friends at Karnet Prison, 1996. Rose Porteous and her husband Willie are on the right.

Two of a kind. Alan poses by Webber’s famous Portrait of Captain Cook in 1988. Cook’s countrymen didn’t value him either, said Bond. The missing portrait was discovered by police in London in 1996.

It must run in the family. Craig Bond forgot all about his involvement with the voyages of the Captain Cook until confronted with the evidence.

Angela Nevill, Bond’s art dealer, who tried to sell the Portrait of Captain Cook to the National Gallery of Australia in 1993.

Robert Bleakley, former Managing Director of Sotheby’s, negotiated with the National Gallery of Australia to sell the Portrait of Captain Cook on Nevill’s behalf.

Technical knockout. Bond walked free from Karnet prison in March 2000 after the High Court freed him on a legal technicality.

Where next? All set to bounce back, March 2000.