Former Wimbledon champion Boris Becker could work as a prison instructor in prison after receiving a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence for hiding £ 2.5 million in assets and loans to avoid -pay your debts.
Becker, 54, arrived at HMP Wandsworth on Friday, a Category B prison just 2.4 miles from Center Court, where he won three tennis titles after serving a 30-month sentence. – of which he will probably serve only half – at Southwark Crown Court earlier. day.
A former prison governor said the disgraced tennis star would be a good gym instructor if he were interested in taking on a role while in prison.
Jerry Petherick told The Sun: “Gyms are very popular in prisons – it’s a job that many inmates want.”
But it is unlikely that Becker will be able to play such a role any time soon.
New detainees in Wandsworth Prison are being held in the “induction wing” of the prison for seven to ten days upon arrival due to restrictions on Covid.
Becker can then be transferred to the general population, but new detainees should usually stay in prison for at least six weeks, showing good behavior, before being considered for worker roles.
Wandsworth is also a pretrial detention facility used to temporarily detain offenders who are later transferred to serve their sentences elsewhere, which means that Becker is less likely to serve his full sentence there.
Boris Becker arriving at Southwark Crown Court on April 29, 2022 in London, England. Six-time Grand Slam tennis champion Boris Becker has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison after being found guilty of four counts of insolvency law related to his bankruptcy in 2017.
Main entrance to HMP Wandsworth, London, UK. HMP Wandsworth in south-west London was built in 1851 and is one of the largest prisons in Western Europe. It has a capacity of about 1500 prisoners, but is known to be in poor condition and infested with rats.
Boris, photographed in June 1993 at Wimbledon, just 2.4 miles from his cell in Wandsworth Prison, was declared bankrupt in June 2017, owing creditors nearly £ 50 million for an unpaid loan of more than £ 3 million. on his fortune in Mallorca, Spain.
Former Wimbledon tennis champion Boris Becker has won three Grand Slam titles on the center field (Becker, photographed at age 17 in 1985)
The former professional sportsman was found to have hidden assets and loans worth £ 2.5 million in order not to pay his debts, and on Friday he started the sentence he has to serve for at least a year and three months. .
He was declared bankrupt in June 2017, owing creditors almost £ 50 million for an unpaid loan of over £ 3 million on his fortune in Mallorca, Spain.
He transferred approximately £ 390,000 from his business account to others, including his ex-wife Barbara Becker and estranged wife Sharlely “Lilly” Becker.
Becker also failed to declare his share in a £ 1 million property in his hometown of Leimen, Germany, hiding a bank loan of almost £ 700,000 – worth £ 1.1 million. interest-bearing pounds – and hid 75,000 shares in a technology company, valued at £ 66,000. .
The 54-year-old, who received a two-year suspended sentence for tax evasion and attempted tax evasion worth £ 1.4 million in Germany in 2002, was found guilty on April 8 of four counts of Insolvency law between June and October 2017.
Each trial involved a maximum sentence of seven years in prison. On Friday afternoon, Judge Deborah Taylor sentenced the six-time Grand Slam champion to 30 months in prison, of which he will serve at least half.
Wandsworth Prison is a safe Category B prison that can accommodate over 1,500 detainees. In a recent inspection, the institution was described as “collapsing, overcrowded and infested with parasites”.
Friends and close contacts of the former tennis star reacted with concern that he was imprisoned, his biographer wondering if “he will survive mentally”, and a German TV star saying that “he must take responsibility” for his actions .
After Becker was convicted, C