Silicon Valley's fallen superstar faces 20 years behind bars

Fallen US biotech star Elizabeth Holmes was convicted on Monday of defrauding investors in her blood-testing startup Theranos, in a high-profile case seen as an indictment of Silicon Valley culture. Jurors found Holmes guilty of four counts of tricking investors into pouring money into what she claimed was a revolutionary testing system, after a complex and lengthy trial. They acquitted her of a number of charges she had faced, and did not reach a verdict on others.

The 37-year-old now faces the possibility of up to 20 years behind bars. Holmes had vowed to revolutionise diagnostics with self-service machines that could