Thomas Markle ordered back to jail

Thomas Markle, an accused child sexual predator and the estranged father of Britain's Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle, was ordered back to jail on Tuesday after cutting of an electronic monitoring device he was supposed to wear as a condition of home confinement, federal prosecutors confimred.



US Magistrate Judge Lindsay Saxe Griffin ordered the 82-year-old father-in-law of Prince Harry returned to federal detention without bond at a hearing in Tampa, Florida, according to the US Attorney's Office in Los Angeles, where the case against him is pending.



Thomas Markle was arrested and charged on Friday on a single federal count of possessing child sexual abuse material, including two explicit photographs of himself posed with a naked underage girl and other images of him with children in various stages of undress.



According to an FBI affidavit filed in court as part of the criminal complaint lodged against Markle, federal agents seized the material in question, part of a cache of slides, film negatives and books, from storage units Markle had rented in Los Angeles since 2008.