Last Updated on August 10, 2022, 5:29 AM AST by Anthony Morris
IFBB Pro bodybuilder Bertil Fox competed in some of the sport’s most prominent stages but was charged with double murder in 1998. Bertil Fox was pardoned by St.Kitts and Nevis Governor-General Sir Tapley Seaton and has been released from prison after serving a 25-year sentence.
In light of this important news, Fox’s son, Shaun Fox, confirmed that his father was released from prison after serving a sentence of over two decades. Bertil was charged with double murder in 1997 after murdering his former fiancé Leyoca Browne and her mother, Violet Browne, by shooting them with a gun.
Originally, the professional bodybuilder was sentenced to death by hanging, but after appealing the verdict, the judicial authorities changed his 1998 sentence to serving life.
On Thursday, August 4, 2022, Fox was pardoned by the Governor General of St. Kitts and Nevis after his 25-year sentence, which marked his first day back in society as a free man living in London with his family. There were no official reports of his pardon, but his son, Shaun, has confirmed the news via Facebook.
Competitive bodybuilder Gary Strydon also expressed his views regarding the same. He wrote, “BERTIL FOX RELEASED: It almost made me cry today. We love you, Bertil and those of you that didn’t know it was an accident. The gun was not his, and a struggle ensued, causing this “accident”.
It wouldn’t have happened if she didn’t have a gun in her bag. What then happened was a lynching where the locals wanted retribution. Well, they made him sit for 25 years.
Bertil Fox was initially sentenced to death by hanging. However, after an appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the judicial authorities changed his sentence to life in prison.
On August 4, 2022, Fox was pardoned by the Governor General of St. Kitts and Nevis, having served his sentence for 25 years and is now a free man living in the UK.
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