Earlier this month, a jury at London’s Southwark Crown Court found former German tennis star Boris Becker guilty of four out of 24 charges. The jury found it proven that Becker withheld significant portions of his assets from his bankruptcy trustee, Mark Ford.
It was about a property in Germany – Becker’s parents’ house in Leimen, where his 86-year-old mother Elvira currently lives – shares in a technology company and a bank loan of 825,000 euros. In addition, Becker is said to have transferred large sums to the accounts of his ex-wives Barbara and Lilly Becker. In total, the sum of 426,930 euros was made in the form of nine different transfers.
On Friday afternoon, Judge Deborah Taylor announced the sentence: two and a half years in prison. Becker will serve his sentence at Wandsworth Prison in south-west London. The prison is one of the largest in the country and was built in the 19th century. In 2010, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange told the Spanish newspaper “El Pais” about his time there and remembered some gruesome details. “There were crazy pedophiles there who cried out loud all night about their crimes. You could hear their shouts all night,” he said. Writer Oscar Wilde and Kate Moss’ ex-partner and musician Peter Doherty have also been imprisoned here.
Inmates recently called the prison “crumbly, overcrowded and vermin-infested.” In a survey, the majority of inmates stated that they were rarely allowed to go outside in the fresh air. “The prison’s infrastructure was in dire need of refurbishment: cells and corridors were often shabby, some of the showers were terrible, and the outside areas were littered with rubbish,” Chief Inspector Charlie Taylor said recently. There is a big problem with “rats, mice and pigeons”. Incidents of violence have also increased in recent times.
The cells in the prison are 6.5 square meters and the former execution room is now the staff dining room. Boris Becker was declared bankrupt by a London bankruptcy court in June 2017 because he was unable to pay various debts. Becker’s outstanding debts were estimated at up to 50 million pounds (59 million euros) at the time.
Source: Stern
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