A final day out? Becker visits pal’s f lat and Harrods
‘Took a taxi to council estate’
BORIS Becker spent what could be his last day of freedom browsing Harrods and visiting an unknown woman in her council flat.
The three-time Wimbledon champion, 54, was photographed in Knightsbridge, Paddington and Notting Hill yesterday ahead of today’s sentencing for a £2.5million bankruptcy scam.
Wearing a grey jacket and a baseball cap, he was spotted taking a taxi to a council estate in Bayswater, west London, to visit a woman before emerging 90 minutes later to go shopping in Harrods – where a guard ushered him in through a side entrance.
The father of four, who faces up to seven years behind bars, later walked home clutching a new Puma canvas holdall. A London court has heard how he transferred £350,000 to other accounts, hid a property in Germany and failed to declare 75,000 shares in an IT firm and a £700,000 loan.
He was legally obliged to disclose all of his assets after being declared bankrupt in 2017.
The six-time Grand Slam winner, who was found guilty of four charges under the Insolvency Act, now faces losing lucrative contracts with TV networks around the world, including his job as a BBC pundit at Wimbledon. On Wednesday, Becker was embraced by his girlfriend as he took a cigarette break during a meeting with documentary maker George Chignell in London.
Last weekend, he was pictured with estranged wife Lilly and their 12-yearold boy in south London before the father and son met up with his current girlfriend, Lilian de Carvalho Monteiro.
Becker will learn his fate at Southwark Crown Court later this morning.
The tennis star, who lived in Monte Carlo and Switzerland before moving to the UK, told the court he had ‘expensive lifestyle commitments’, including a £22,000-a-month rental house in Wimbledon, south-west London.