Overview

• Becker recounts a confrontation with an inmate named Zac who allegedly threatened to slit his throat before other prisoners intervened and the man later apologized.
• He says a poker game left him with a £500 debt to prison gamblers, which he settled via bank transfer after intimidation and warnings about the gang’s leader.
• The excerpts describe severe conditions including freezing cells, scant food and a seven-kilogram weight loss in the first four weeks.
• Becker portrays the facilities as controlled by inmates and says he relied on alliances with figures he names as Ike and Shuggy for protection and day-to-day survival.
• The former champion served eight months in 2022 at HMP Wandsworth and Huntercombe, was deported to Germany on December 14, 2022, and later resettled in Milan; the accounts are from a book serialized by the Daily Mail.