Boris Becker
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Guilty on four counts
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Boris Becker outside Southwark Crown Court in London. Since Wednesday he had to be ready for the jury’s decision.
(Photo: Alberto Pezzali/AP)
The trial at Southwark Crown Court, a run-down building on London Bridge, lasted three weeks. Above all, Boris Becker tried not to portray himself as an entrepreneur. According to the jury’s decision, he could face a prison sentence.
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At some point in this process, in which Boris Becker’s past was negotiated and with it his future, two pensioners appear. They take a seat on the worn-out visitor’s chairs in Court 3, Boris Becker is sitting directly in front of them in a glass case on a swivel chair that looks as if too many people have already sat on it. The pensioners will be the only visitors to the third floor of Southwark Crown Court in London for the rest of the three weeks, and they won’t be there long either. No entertainment, this process, just numbers, amounts, consultants. The room does the rest, there are no windows, the acoustics are abysmal, the ventilation system whirrs, and now and then a chair creaks. Court 3 is not Center Court.
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