Former world number 1 Becker leaves prison in UK, faces deportation

Six-time Grand Slam champion Boris Becker has left prison in the United Kingdom after serving eight months of his sentence for hiding £2.5m ($3.09m) worth of assets and loans to avoid paying debts.

Former world no. 1 was jailed for two and a half years in April after being found guilty of four charges under the Insolvency Act.

However, the three-time Wimbledon champion left the prison on Thursday morning and will most likely be deported to Germany next week.

Any foreign national who is convicted of a crime and given a prison sentence is considered for deportation at the earliest opportunity,” the Home Office said in a statement while declining to comment directly on Becker’s case.

The German tennis star qualifies for automatic deportation as a foreign national without British citizenship and a custodial sentence of more than 12 months.

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The 55-year-old was initially held at Wandsworth Prison in south-west London before moving to Huntercombe Prison in May, where he stayed until today.

Becker was cleared of 20 other charges, including nine counts of hiding trophies and medals, including his first Wimbledon trophy from 1985.

Earlier this year, Becker appeared at London’s Southwark Crown Court wearing a striped Wimbledon-colored purple and green tie.

Becker took a £3.85m loan from private bank Arbuthnot Latham in 2013 and borrowed £1.2m with a 25% interest rate from the billionaire businessman John Caudwell.