A tearful Boris Becker has opened up about 'hitting rock bottom' after squandering a £38 million fortune and being jailed for fraud
Speaking in a soon-to-be-released documentary made a few days ahead of his sentencing, an emotional Becker said: "I've hit my bottom, I don't know what to make of it."It's Wednesday afternoon and Friday I know the rest of my life."
The filmmakers also interviewed his immediate family and sporting rivals like John McEnroe, Mats Wilander and Michael Stich. The scheme allows "any foreign national serving a fixed sentence who is liable for removal from the UK to be removed from prison and deported up to 12 months before the earliest release point of their sentence." Up to 135 days are slashed from sentences if offenders agree to go.
After he was declared bankrupt over an unpaid £3m loan in 2017, Southwark Crown Court heard he should have declared all assets to independent trustees who would distribute them to creditors.However, the tennis legend had almost £1m in a business account used as a “piggy bank” for personal expenses. Jurors heard that the pundit and coach quickly transferred around £350,000 to nine recipients.
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