Becker gets job as sports science teacher at prison

By Our Special Correspondent

German tennis legend and three-time Wimbledon champion Boris Becker has reportedly landed a prison job teaching sports science, but fellow inmates are up in arms against the authorities for giving 'preferential treatment' to the 54-year-old, who is serving a two-and-a-half year sentence for hiding 2.5 million pounds sterling worth of assets and loans to avoid paying debts.

Though Becker continues to deny breaking UK insolvency laws after he was declared bankrupt in 2017, owning creditors almost 50 million pounds, he was found guilty of four charges by a jury under the Insolvency Act and sent to prison.

A report in The Sun has said Becker has got the "part-time role as a classroom assistant, teaching PE theory and benefits of exercise to other prisoners", but the move has not gone down well with other inmates who are accusing the authorities of favoritism.

The report added that some of the inmates' families have complained to the governor regarding Becker, who is housed at category C HMP Hunter combe in Oxford shire. An insider was quoted as saying in the report that one has to serve years to get a job as a classroom assistant, which Becker has got in just a few weeks' time.