Tennis player Boris Becker has been released from prison and traveled to his native Germany, where he spoke and gave details of the torments he experienced during his deprivation of liberty.
The former number 1 in the world recounted, among other things, that he had received threats of rape from other prisoners and that on October 1st he wanted to kill him and explained how he was going to do it.
“A prisoner named John told me that if I didn’t do some things he would kill me, which I confirmed with others,” the 55-year-old told German TV channel Sat1.
He also claimed that it was three other inmates who “saved his life”.
a real nightmare
The German served eight months of his sentence for fraudulent bankruptcy in the prison of huntercombein Oxfordshire.
Becker was sentenced to two and a half years. He spent three months in what is considered the strictest prison in England, HMPWandsworthand then be transferred huntercombewhere he spent the last five.
Boris has benefited from the so-called “fast-track” system, which provides for the extradition to the country of origin of a detainee under certain conditions.
He returned to his country despite having served half of the minimum 15 months in prison to which he was sentenced and now he doesn’t know if he will stay in Germany or if he will go to the United States or Qatar.
Last year 1,136 foreign prisoners in the UK benefited from this reduced sentence, although in Becker’s case he has lived in Britain since 2012.
However, the German has never applied for British citizenship and that is why he was able to return to Germany, where he will serve his sentence in freedom, even without being able to return to the United Kingdom.
While he was locked up, Becker admitted he came to think he would go mad: “I had two big concerns, the shared cell, I was completely terrified.”
“There was also a shower. Movies didn’t help me, when I saw soap falling on the floor. The prison was full, very dirty, extremely dangerous, with murderers, rapists, drug dealersall that kind of stuff, and you have to take care of yourself because the guards won’t do that,” he added.
Guilty
Becker has acknowledged that he is “guilty” of the acts of financial fraud that landed him in prisona “painful” experience, during which she said she feared for her life.
“I learned a hard lesson. A very costly lesson. Very painful,” said the three-time Wimbledon winner.
During his trial he had alleged naïveté or an error in judgement. The court had sharply criticized his lack of repentance.
Who is Boris Becker?
Becker is a German tennis player who has won 49 individual titles, including 6 Grand Slam titlesall between 1985 and 1989.
On July 1, 1985, he became the first German and the youngest (17 years and 7 months) to win Wimbledon.
In addition, Becker won the 1988 and 1989 Davis Cup with Germany and the gold medal in men’s doubles at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. He was No. 1 in the ATP rankings for 12 weeks in 1991.
The German retired with total career earnings of $25 million. Off the court he worked as a tennis commentator for the BBC between 2002 and 2013 and then, from 2014 to 2016, he coached the Serbian Novak Djokovic.
Source: Clarin
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