Boris Becker (1 Viewer)

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The CableGuy

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• Apr 29, 2022

• #1

Jailed for two and a half years for hiding £2.5m worth of assets and loans to avoid paying debts:

Boris Becker jailed: Tennis champion sentenced over bankruptcy

Ex-Wimbledon star sentenced to two and a half years for hiding assets to avoid paying debts.

www.bbc.com

What a fall from grace. But, he was paying £22K per month to rent out a house.

 

Otis

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• Apr 29, 2022

• #2

Grand Slammer in the slammer?

Have I just written tomorrow's Sun headline?

 

Frostie

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• Apr 29, 2022

• #3

How long do we think he'll Serve?

 

SBAndy

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• Apr 29, 2022

• #4

Can’t have been his Fault.

 

Tommo1993

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• Apr 29, 2022

• #5

I always thought it’d be a racketeering charge.

 

no_loyalty

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• Apr 29, 2022

• #6

Deserved his day in court.

 

Otis

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• Apr 29, 2022

• #7

After 3 weeks in there I am sure there will be the "new balls please" call being made.

 

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wingy

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• Apr 29, 2022

• #8

Hmmmm Chalk it up to experience.
Then dust yourself down .

 

Saddlebrains

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• Apr 29, 2022

• #9

Tennis

 

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Deleted member 9744

Guest

• Apr 29, 2022

• #10

Ace that he's been dealt with

 

Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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• Apr 29, 2022

• #11

He'll give the guards a backhander to get preferential treatment.

 

Wyken Sky Blue

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• Apr 29, 2022

• #12

Game, set, match with the judge then

 

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Macca

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• May 1, 2022

• #13

Ah this great country where you can beat the crap out of someone and get a telling off but get jail time for financial matters like this

 

Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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• May 1, 2022

• #14

Macca said:

Ah this great country where you can beat the crap out of someone and get a telling off but get jail time for financial matters like this

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I agree.

Jail is expensive and should be used only where it will be of benefit to the public because they would be at severe risk if the person were free in society. With financial crimes it's risk-reward. If you think the amount you can gain is greater than the amount of time you'd spend in prison then there's an incentive to commit that crime.

Say, for example, that someone is convicted of a crime that gains them a few hundred thousand pounds and is difficult to recover, for which the defendant would receive a couple of years in prison. If they work out that the risk/reward is equivalent to £100k p.a. then they might consider it worth the risk. After all, few jobs would earn you that much.

Instead, let's say the penalty would be monetary and double the amount the person stole, and/or has to be 'worked off' with community service at a rate comparable to minimum wage per hour. That makes it far less appealing. The for repeat offenders it can either increase to three/four times the amount and/or in exceptional repeat offenders mixed in with jail time again comparable to the amount stolen (say, done on a average wage pro-rata basis so say you stole c.£35k you'd get a year in prison, £70k two years etc.)

 

CJ_covblaze

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• May 3, 2022

• #15

It’s crazy that you could earn somewhere between 50-100m before the age of 50 and end up bankrupt. How does that happen?!

 

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skybluesam66

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• May 3, 2022

• #16

Frostie said:

How long do we think he'll Serve?

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30 months - less 50% - 15 months, of which part will be on a tag - so probably around 11 months

 

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wingy

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• Dec 15, 2022

• #17

And he's out .Been a good boy,and straight off expelled.

 

LastGarrison

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• Dec 16, 2022

• #18

skybluesam66 said:

30 months - less 50% - 15 months, of which part will be on a tag - so probably around 11 months

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You cannot be serious?

 

Covkid1968#

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• Dec 16, 2022

• #19

I wonder what spin he’s going to put on this when he sells his story!!

 

Covkid1968#

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• Dec 16, 2022

• #20

Or will he just bat away all requests for interviews

 

LastGarrison

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• Dec 16, 2022

• #21

He deserves this volley of abuse.

 

itsabuzzard

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• Dec 16, 2022

• #22

Backhanders all round.

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