Boris Becker was left listening to screams during time in 'one of UK's toughest prisons'

Boris Becker spent the 'most difficult nights of his life' behind bars.

Three-time Wimbledon champion Boris Becker has shed light on his time at what he branded “one of the toughest prisons in the UK”. The retired tennis star served eight months of a two-and-a-half-year sentence after being found guilty of four charges under the Insolvency Act in 2022. He was deported to Germany upon his release.

Becker burst onto the scene when he made history at Wimbledon in 1985, becoming the tournament’s youngest men’s singles champion at the age of just 17. But three years ago, he found himself incarcerated at HMP Wandsworth, less than three miles away from the All England Club, listening to his inmates’ screams.

The six-time Grand Slam winner told The Guardian : “I heard the screaming and