German tennis star Becker could be released from UK jail and deported early

LONDON: Ex-tennis star Boris Becker, imprisoned in Britain, could soon be deported to Germany, according to a report in British newspaper the Sun.

The 54-year-old has been approved for a fast-track programme that allows foreign prisoners to be released much earlier, the tabloid wrote on Sunday.

“He has been signed up to a scheme that will ensure he gets home in time for Christmas,” the Sun quoted a prison source as saying. Becker’s German lawyer Christian-Oliver Moser would not comment on the newspaper report when contacted.

German Becker - who lived in London - was sentenced to two and a half years in prison at the end of April for concealing assets worth millions from his insolvency administrators.

He has been held for several months in Huntercombe Prison west of London. According to British law, prisoners can be released on parole if they have served at least half of their prison sentence.