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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andy Gregory

Boris Becker says he was ‘a nobody’ in prison as he breaks silence after release

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Tennis star Boris Becker has said he was a “nobody” at the London prison where he served eight months of his sentence for bankruptcy-related crimes before being deported back to his native Germany last week.

In his first interview since his release, Becker told German broadcaster Sat.1 that he wasn’t known by his first name in prison but instead was “just a number”, adding: “They don’t give a s*** who you are.”

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