WATCH | Boris Becker reveals he received 'death threats' in UK prison and 'feared showering'

Former tennis superstar Boris Becker revealed that he received "death threats" while in a UK prison and "feared showering with other inmates".

Becker was freed eight months into a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence handed down in April for flouting insolvency rules by hiding £2.5 million worth of assets and loans to avoid paying debts.

He had been declared bankrupt in June 2017, owing creditors £50 million over an unpaid loan of more than £3 million on his estate on the Spanish island of Majorca.

The 55-year-old said during his first interview since being freed that an inmate at lower-security HMP Wandsworth prison told him, "If I don't do this or that, he would kill me".

During a 60-minute sit-down interview, a tearful Becker told German television station Sat.1: "I thought I would lose my life in Wandsworth. Someone, a murderer, I later found out, wanted my coat and he wanted money. And he said that he would kill me if he didn't get it."