Boris Becker says the prisons the place he served his sentence didn't lack alcohol and medicines, and never solely that, however claims it wasn't that onerous to get to these substances.
On April twenty ninth, 2022, the choose dominated that Becker was discovered responsible of hiding property after declaring chapter. On the identical day, the previous three-time Wimbledon champion was despatched to Wandsworth Jail in London, the place he began serving his two-and-a-half-year sentence. The German, who was 55 on the time when his sentence started, spent his first couple of weeks in Wandsworth earlier than being transported to Huntercombe Jail close to Oxford.
Becker: Alcohol was straightforward… There have been medicine as nicely
“As the times glided by, I realized that you can get something you needed in jail. Alcohol was straightforward. Folks made it themselves with sugar, fruit and different issues you can purchase legitimately along with your allowance from the canteen… then there have been the medicine. Weed, tablets, heroin. Generally they got here within the jail model of inside mail. Up the again passage. Generally it was the wardens – somebody taking a reduce, somebody with a weak point or an issue left susceptible to a bribe," Becker stated in his autobiography.
Whereas prisoners had entry to sure employees, Becker highlights that it was all however a straightforward and perfect life behind bars. For example, the German tennis legend recalled showering with chilly water and being informed to put on flip-flops as a result of no one was positive what might be inside the tub.
“Some days these showers could be icy chilly. You by no means knew why. It was simply one other disagreeable truth in a day you don’t management. Filth everywhere in the ground, on the tiles. I used to be lent a pair of flip-flops. Boris, put on them, as a result of we don’t know who was there earlier than. The primary time in my life I ever showered in flip-flops," the 57-year-old stated.
After serving round eight months of his jail sentence in Nice Britain, Becker was deported to Germany and his sentence routinely ended.
