Tennis ace Boris Becker flies to Germany on £2m private jet just hours after being freed from prison
TENNIS champ Boris Becker has been freed from jail and flown out of the UK on a £2 million private jet.
The three-time Wimbledon champion was deported to Germany just two hours after being released from prison today.
The German, 55, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in April for hiding £2.5million in assets while bankrupt.
The disgraced tennis star has spent eight months in Category C Huntercomb prison, Oxon, where criminals wait to be deported.
He was previously in London's notorious Category B Wandsworth Prison.
Becker, who has lived in the UK since 2012, was expected to serve half of his sentence behind bars.
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But he has been accepted on to an early release scheme.
This allows “any foreign national serving a fixed sentence who is liable for removal from the UK to be removed from prison and deported up to 12 months before the earliest release point of their sentence”.
The Home Office removed 1,136 foreign national offenders under its early removal programme last year.
The German was driven up to the steps of his plane by cops in a prison van at Biggin Hill airport, London, where he flew off at 10:50am on Thursday.
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The jet has been paid for by a German TV company.
The telly firm is believed to have shelled out a six-figure sum for his prison story.
It comes as his mum Elvira, 87, revealed she is looking forward to an emotional reunion with Boris.
A friend of the family said: “Elvira is simply overjoyed he is coming home.
"For her, having Boris out of prison and back home is the best thing imaginable – and for it to happen in time for Christmas will be great for her.
“She was worried about when she might see him again, so this is all a huge deal for her - especially given her age.”
Elvira previously claimed her tennis ace son only rang her "once" while inside.
Becker has four children from three relationships—sons Noah, 27, and Elias, 22, daughter Anna Ermakova, 21, and son Amadeus, 11.
He’s also likely to be joined in Germany by his girlfriend, Lilian de Carvalho Monteiro, 42.