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 tough 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 possibly can get something you wished in jail. Alcohol was straightforward. Folks made it themselves with sugar, fruit and different issues you possibly 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 inner mail. Up the again passage. Generally it was the wardens – somebody taking a lower, somebody with a weak point or an issue left susceptible to a bribe," Becker mentioned in his autobiography.
Whereas prisoners had entry to sure workers, Becker highlights that it was all however a simple and perfect life behind bars. For instance, the German tennis legend recalled showering with chilly water and being advised to put on flip-flops as a result of no one was positive what could possibly be inside the bath.
“Some days these showers can be icy chilly. You by no means knew why. It was simply one other disagreeable reality 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 mentioned.
After serving round eight months of his jail sentence in Nice Britain, Becker was deported to Germany and his sentence robotically ended.
