Overview

• He recounts nights of screaming from nearby cells and describes the environment as torture in passages printed from the book.
• Becker says he lost seven kilograms in four weeks and slept in layers in an unheated cell, adding that inmates effectively ran the prison.
• He alleges he was threatened over a €700 gambling debt and says a friend’s payment by bank transfer prevented a beating.
• The former champion was convicted in April 2022 of offences linked to his 2017 bankruptcy and was sentenced to 30 months in prison.
• He served about eight months at HMP Wandsworth and Huntercombe, was released in December 2022, and was deported to Germany.