Former tennis superstar Boris Becker may be spending this Christmas in his home country of Germany, after spending seven months of a longer term in a British jail for fraud and tax evasion.

The United Kingdom is attempting to reduce overcrowding in its prisons and has decided, when it can, to send convicted criminals to their home country.

It’s part of the thinking behind plans to construct a state-of-the-art prison in Jamaica and send convicted Jamaicans committing crimes there back to their homeland.

FOREIGN PRISONERS MUST AGREE TO BE DEPORTED

Becker, who is now 54, was in April sentenced to two and a half years for hiding £2.5 million in assets while declaring bankruptcy. He was sent to Huntercombe prison in Oxfordshire after a short stint in London’s Wandsworth prison.

British authorities insist foreign prisoners must agree to be deported home, declaring, “any foreign national serving a fixed sentence who is liable for removal from the UK to be removed from prison and deported up to 12 months before the earliest release point of their sentence”.

This could see up to 135 days reduced from sentences and frees up British prisons.

WIFE AND LOVER STICKING BY BECKER

Becker got himself in trouble with tax evasion. He had to sell a number of assets and rely on his tennis commentary gig to make a living.

His wife, Sharply Kerssenberg, and lover, Lillian de Carvalho, have stuck by him with De Carvalho expected to follow Becker to Germany.

Becker won Wimbledon for the first time aged just 17, making him the youngest player to win the prestigious Grand Slam event.