He also apparently usurped the pirate boss' leadership by allying with the rest of the pirates and violently murdering the pirate leader in front of his family. This also led to Hoyt allegedly and vengefully killing his own father and he became a member of a pirate and drug dealer consortium. His father was a diamond miner who frequently abused Hoyt, which ultimately led to him believing he can prove to himself that he was better than his father. Hoyt was born during the Apartheid era in Johannesburg, South Africa sometime in 1967. He has a bloodthirsty army of Privateers and appears to not cope with rule breaking and goes as far as burning people alive in a cage and making other Recruits watch.
Hoyt is a very sadistic and mentally unstable man and, according to Dennis, he's the 'source of evil' on the islands.
