Career
Born 5 January 1951, on the eastern Caribbean island of Saint Kitts, Fox emigrated to London, England, with his family when he was one year old. He then moved to Northampton. He did not return to Saint Kitts for more than 40 years.
He once said, "I"m 100% British.
I think, I act and talk like an Englishman, not like someone from the West Indies."
Before turning Professional, Fox worked as a train driver on the London Underground. Joe Weider sponsored Fox"s move to Los Angeles in 1981, and he competed in IFBB contests for the next 13 years.
Bill Reynolds, then Flex magazine editor-in-chief, gave Fox the nickname "Brutal Bertil" for his high-volume and extremely heavy training. The 5"10" 245-pound Fox lacked back width and thigh sweep, but the colossal chest, delts, traps and arms he sported more than 30 years ago would hold up on any-stage today.
Fox placed second in two IFBB shows – the 1982 Night Of Champions and the 1983 Swiss Grand Prix (beating Lee Haney) and he finished fifth in the 1983 Mr.
Olympia (his second of five Mr O appearances). He competed in 12 IFBB shows from 1984 to 1994. Retiring from the stage, he returned to Saint Kitts for the first time since 1952, to open Fox"s Gym in the summer of 1995.
On 30 September 1997, in Saint Kitts and Nevis, 20-year-old beauty queen Leyoca Browne and her mother, 36-year-old Violet Browne, were fatally shot by Fox, then 46.
Fox, who previously had been engaged to Leyoca, was arrested and charged with the murders. On 22 May 1998, Fox was convicted of murder of the two women.
He was originally sentenced to death by hanging, but after an appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, his sentence was changed to life in prison.
