[News] Boris Becker Released

[Lenny Rider]

That two and half years has flown by.

Now getting deported back to the Fatherland*


Surely for a crime of this level, he would have been better doing extensive and high profile community service rather than being locked up at more cost to the taxpayer?

*Genuine question, does every newly released foreign prisoner immediately get deported?

 

[Is it PotG?]

Genuine question, does every newly released foreign prisoner immediately get deported?

Becker is thought to qualify for automatic deportation as he received a sentence of 12 months of more and is not thought to have British citizenship.

 

[Austrian Gull]

I'm not au fait with the usual sentence for such crimes but feel that it would have been better for him to do work in the community rather than sitting in a cell at a tough prison.

Have no great sympathy with Becker - he is someone whose greatest weaknesses are his arrogance and his poor choices in his private life. Deporting him just seems like a bit of a muscle flex from the UK.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

He’s lived in the U.K. for 10 years or so, served his sentence, isn’t a harm to anyone, seems a bit spiteful to sling him out.

 

[El Presidente]

Boris Becker's releases helped get him into trouble in the first place.

 

[Brovion]

Yet another signing that didn't work out. Did he even play for the first team?


(Oh come on, someone had to say it. That thread title was an open goal).

 

[Lenny Rider]

Boris Becker's releases helped get him into trouble in the first place.

We have a winner

 

[Eeyore]

Has he served his time.....? If he upsets the judge he could be in for a cross court return.

 

[keaton]

Could do a job? Good at finding holes in tight places

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

2.5 year sentence and barely served 8 months. Not his first offence either as he got a suspended 3 year sentence in Germany in 2002 for tax evasion. Think he got off quite lightly really.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Has he served his time.....? If he upsets the judge he could be in for a cross court return.

Yeah, but 8 months out of a 30 month sentence. He must have behaved very well

 

[maffew]

Early release for ace behaviour

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

He’s paid his deuce

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

2.5 year sentence and barely served 8 months. Not his first offence either as he got a suspended 3 year sentence in Germany in 2002 for tax evasion. Think he got off quite lightly really.

I didn’t realise he got Wimbl-done for tax evasion in Germany as well

 

[Triggaaar]

Boris Becker: Six-time Grand Slam singles champion on prison, fame and the future

Former Wimbledon champion Boris Becker says he is building his "third chapter" after eight months in prison.

www.bbc.co.uk

"I'm usually good in the fifth set - I've won the first two sets, I've lost the next two and I'm planning to win the fifth"

 

[AmexRuislip]

Boris Becker: Six-time Grand Slam singles champion on prison, fame and the future

Former Wimbledon champion Boris Becker says he is building his "third chapter" after eight months in prison.

www.bbc.co.uk

"I'm usually good in the fifth set - I've won the first two sets, I've lost the next two and I'm planning to win the fifth"

After eight months in a comfortable prison in Oxfordshire, surrounded by beautiful countryside, what a tw@t.

 

[Muzzman]

Sounds like a euphemism… and on that note, I’m off to release a Boris Becker.

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

Always makes me smile when somebody says they are a survivor - everybody alive in the world today is a survivor