{"id":4183,"date":"2026-11-11T10:03:49","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T05:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4183"},"modified":"2026-11-11T10:03:49","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T05:03:49","slug":"thomas-markle-sent-back-to-jail-after-cutting-off-his-ankle-bracelet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4183","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Markle sent back to jail after cutting off his ankle bracelet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thomas Markle, an accused child sexual predator and the estranged father \u200bof Britain\u2019s Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle, was sent back to jail on Tuesday after cutting off an electronic ankle monitor he was ordered to \u200cwear as a condition of home confinement.<\/strong><\/p>\n

US Magistrate Judge Lindsay Griffin found that the father-in-law of Prince Harry had violated the terms of his pretrial release and ordered him returned to federal custody without bond at a hearing in Tampa, Florida, court records showed.<\/p>\n

Thomas Markle, 82, had been arrested<\/a> and charged on Friday with a single federal count of possessing child sexual abuse material, including two explicit photographs of himself posed with a naked underage \u200bgirl and other images of him with children in various stages of undress.<\/p>\n

According to an FBI affidavit filed in court as part of the \u200bcriminal complaint lodged against him, one of the photos showed a naked girl in a room that appears to be \u2060part of a motel chain in the Philippines, where Markle previously resided and where authorities initiated an investigation of him last month.<\/p>\n

The affidavit says federal agents seized \u200bthe material in question, including photographic slides, film negatives and books, from two storage units Markle had rented in Los Angeles since 2008.<\/p>\n

Commenting on the case on Friday, FBI Director \u200bKash Patel said Markle \u201ctargeted innocent children and sought to steal their innocence through his criminal actions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Markle, who most recently resided at an assisted-living facility in Lakeland, Florida, near Tampa, denied possessing sexually explicit photos of children when such allegations first surfaced, telling the Daily Mail they were untrue and \u201csick lies.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/a>Home confinement grows \u2018untenable\u2019<\/strong><\/h3>\n

No plea was entered during Markle\u2019s initial court hearing last Friday, and the judge permitted him to \u200bbe released from custody on condition that he submit to home detention and the wearing of an electronic monitoring device.<\/p>\n

But federal prosecutors said they asked the judge to revoke home release and keep him locked up pending trial after he was found to have cut the ankle bracelet off early Monday morning.<\/p>\n

Agreeing that Markle\u2019s housing situation had \u201cbecome untenable,\u201d Griffin granted prosecutors\u2019 request. Markle was then \u200cre-arrested and \u2060returned to federal custody, according to the US Attorney\u2019s Office in Los Angeles, where the case against him was brought.<\/p>\n

The judge stipulated that Markle was to be kept in a detention facility \u201cseparate, to the extent practicable, from\u201d the general jail population.<\/p>\n

She also ordered Markle to undergo a \u201cprompt medical evaluation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Tampa-based federal public defender assigned to represent Markle did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.<\/p>\n

Griffin on Friday ordered Markle to undergo a psychiatric examination to determine whether he \u200bwas mentally competent to face prosecution.<\/p>\n

The \u200bjudge said she found \u201creasonable cause to \u2060believe\u201d he was suffering from some mental deficiency, based in part on his advanced age and a \u201clack of recall\u201d he demonstrated during last week\u2019s court appearance.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Meghan in public<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Meghan, an American actor, has been estranged from her father since the run-up to her 2018 marriage to King Charles\u2019 younger son, Harry, in 2018, when the Duchess said she first learned of the allegations against the elder Markle.<\/p>\n

She has said she was \u201cdeeply distressed\u201d over the matter, which led her to cut off contact between her father and her two children, Archie, 7, and Lilibet, 5.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday in Brussels, Meghan made her first public appearance since her father was charged, attending an event with Harry at the European Parliament to mark the \u2060opening of \u200bthe Lost Screen Memorial, an art installation commemorating children who died as a result of suffering \u200bharm on social media.<\/p>\n

Harry delivered a speech at the event, but Meghan cancelled her planned address, a spokesperson for the couple said. Neither responded to questions shouted at them by journalists at \u200bthe gathering.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thomas Markle, an accused child sexual predator and the estranged father \u200bof Britain\u2019s Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle, was sent back to jail on Tuesday after cutting off an electronic ankle monitor he was ordered to \u200cwear as a condition of home confinement. US Magistrate Judge Lindsay Griffin found that the father-in-law of Prince Harry had violated the terms of his pretrial release and ordered him returned to federal custody without bond at a hearing in Tampa, Florida, court records showed. Thomas Markle, 82, had been arrested and charged on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}