Boris Becker: UK prison sentence was ‘brutal’ experience

Three-times Wimbledon champion describes eight months in jail as very, very different experience to what you see in the movies'

Boris Becker has spoken of his brutal" prison experience in the UK, adding that during his incarceration he had to surround himself with tough boys" for protection.

The three-times Wimbledon men's singles champion served eight months of his two-and-a-half-year sentence for hiding 2.5m of assets and loans in a bankruptcy fraud case. He was released from prison in December and deported from the UK.