Boris Becker: Former Wimbledon champion released after serving eight months of prison sentence

Boris Becker, a former Wimbledon champion, has been freed from prison after serving the entirety of his eight-month term for concealing assets and loans totaling £2.5 million in order to avoid paying obligations. After being convicted guilty of four offences under the Insolvency Act in April, the 55-year-old German was sentenced to two and a half years in prison.

He was let out of jail on Thursday morning and has since taken a flight to Germany. According to the BBC, Becker was expelled from the United Kingdom. Becker “was released from detention in England and has left for Germany today,” according to a statement from his Berlin-based attorney Christian-Oliver Moser. According to a government source who spoke to the BBC, Becker took a private plane rented by a friend out of Biggin Hill.

Any foreign national who is found guilty of a crime and given a prison sentence is taken into consideration for deportation at the earliest opportunity, a Home Office spokesperson told BBC Sport.

As a foreigner without British citizenship who was given a sentence of more than 12 months in custody, Becker is automatically deported.

Becker resigned from playing in 1999 and has been residing in the UK since 2012. Throughout his 15-year career, he captured six Grand Slam singles titles, including three at Wimbledon.

Due to an outstanding loan of more than £3 million on his estate in Mallorca, Spain, he was declared bankrupt in June 2017.

Earlier this year, Becker was accused of concealing assets worth millions of pounds in order to avoid paying his debts. 

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