Three-time Wimbledon champ Boris Becker has been released from prison after serving just eight months of his two-and-a-half-year sentence and will now be deported from the United Kingdom.
The 55-year-old tennis star, who won the All England Club tournament at the age of just 17, was convicted in April of concealing £2.5 million worth of assets and loans to dodge paying his debts.
He’s supposed to be returning to his hometown of Leimen, where his 87-year-old mother Elvira lives, for a touching reunion with his loved ones.
Boris’ mother reportedly told a friend that this would be the best Christmas gift she could wish for and that she couldn’t wait to hold her darling son in her arms.
A close friend of Boris Becker’s family also said that Elvira was just overjoyed he was coming home, and they said that for her, having Boris out of prison and back home was the best thing imaginable, and for it to happen in time for Christmas was going to be amazing.
They said that she was worried about when she might see him again, so this was all a huge deal for her, especially given her age.
The former world number one and BBC commentator was declared bankrupt on June 21, 2017, owing creditors nearly £50 million over an outstanding loan of more than £3 million on his estate in Majorca.
The German, who’s lived in the United Kingdom since 2012, was expected to serve half of his sentence behind bars but was released and is scheduled on a flight to be deported from the UK.
He’s thought to have been moved to a lower security prison, Category C Huntercombe Prison near Henley on Thames in Oxfordshire, for foreign prisoners awaiting deportation in May.
According to reports, he was previously being held at Category B Wandsworth Prison in southwest London.
The six-time Grand Slam champion qualified for automatic deportation because he’s a foreign national who doesn’t have British citizenship and received a custodial sentence of more than 12 months.
He walked free under a fast-track scheme that sends criminals back to their own homeland before their release date to relieve pressure on Britain’s overcrowded prisons.
As he tasted freedom, the German tennis ace slipped comfortably back into a lifestyle he’s more used to with Boris Becker allegedly heading home in a luxury paid-for private jet.
But sentencing in the United Kingdom is ridiculously inconsistent and he should have never been put in jail in the first place, but he’s now learnt his lesson and paid the price, so now he should be permitted to rebuild his life.
Meanwhile, there are activists stopping people in the United Kingdom from getting to work and appointments, yet they will get a slap on the wrist – now they should go to jail.
It’s a shame we can’t do the same to people coming into the United Kingdom illegally. Their admission to the United Kingdom is illegal, shouldn’t they be arrested instead of the UK harbouring these lawbreakers? The trouble is we don’t have enough dwellings to put them, although as far as our Government is concerned, hotels and Pontin’s camps will suffice.
The trouble is, even though they cross over to our country illegally, once they’re picked up and brought in by our Border Force and RNLI, it’s no longer illegal, which is extremely fortunate for them and our Government.
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