After being released from prison, the three-time Wimbledon winner Boris Becker will be deported from the United Kingdom.
The 55-year-old German resident of the United Kingdom since 2012 was released Thursday after serving eight months of a two-and-a-half-year sentence.
In April, the six-time grand slam champion was sentenced to prison for concealing £2.5 million in assets and loans to avoid paying his obligations.
Becker was supposed to serve half of his term in prison, but he was recently authorized for a program that expedites the deportation of foreign nationals if certain conditions are met. Last year, the Home Office removed 1,136 foreign national criminals as part of its early removal program.
The former world’s number one tennis player will be deported because he is a foreign alien without British citizenship who was sentenced to more than one year in prison. After deportation, Becker will be unable to apply for entry to the United Kingdom for ten years.
According to other accounts, Becker will fly to Germany on a private jet paid for by a television network that purportedly offered him a six-figure sum for his story. His mother has expressed her excitement over his anticipated return to his native country.
Elvira Becker, as reported by the Sun, stated, “This is the best Christmas gift I could have hoped for; I cannot wait to hold my beautiful boy in my arms.”
Becker is believed to have been relocated from the category B Wandsworth prison in south-west London to the category C Huntercombe prison near Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire for foreign criminals awaiting deportation in May.
He was declared bankrupt on 21 June 2017 owing creditors about £50 million due to an unpaid debt of over £3 million on his Mallorca estate.
Apple TV has published a trailer from the upcoming Alex Gibney-directed and John Battsek-produced Oscar-winning documentary Searching for Sugar Man.
In a series of interviews, the two-part documentary follows Becker’s life over the course of three years. In it, he describes the emotional torment he had before being punished for bankruptcy violations.
Before being sentenced, Becker stated that he had reached “rock bottom” while awaiting the court’s verdict. “I’ve hit rock bottom, and I don’t know what to make of it,” he is heard saying on the video.
“I will confront [my sentence], I will not hide or flee. “I’ll accept whatever sentence I receive.”
