Baker is serving his sentence in a UK prison (Alberto Beasley/Getty)
The mother of the former tennis legend said, Boris Beckerregarding her great sadness, following he called her only once, following the German was sentenced in United kingdomHe was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for hiding £2.5m fraudulently following bankruptcy.
And the British newspaper, “The Sun”, quoted 87-year-old Elvira Becker on Saturday, saying: “I can no longer travel to Boris, and I cannot visit him in prison, and this makes me very sad, because I cannot help him.”
And she continued, “I had a broken femur, and I need a crutch to help me walk, and I have had only one call from Boris since he was sentenced to prison on Mother’s Day last May, and he assured me then that everything is fine, and I should not worry regarding him, but I am sad.” .
The mother of the former tennis legend, Boris Becker, confirmed that she was hearing the news of her son, with the help of his girlfriend Lilian de Carvalho, following the British court’s decision last April to imprison him for two and a half years, due to his fraud case.
It is reported that Elvira Baker, had begged the judge at the Royal Court of London, not to sentence the former tennis legend to imprisonment, but the evidence presented was once morest him, and then he was sentenced to prison.