Meghan Markle father child abuse investigation half-brother person of interest, Digi Mart USA News: A child abuse police investigation into Meghan Markle’s father has been widened to include her half-brother. The Philippines’ interior and local government secretary, Jonvic Remulla, told a press conference in Manila that Thomas Markle Jr.
is now a “person of interest” in the case.
Remulla said there are “signs that point that the son is involved in the crime as well.” However, he said Markle Jr., who alerted local police and the FBI to images he found in his father Thomas Markle Snr.’s belongings, is not yet being treated as a suspect.
In October, Markle Jr. handed police four boxes of child sexual abuse images he had discovered, which allegedly belonged to his 82-year-old father.
He also reported the find to the FBI. Remulla told The Guardian that “all signs point to a possible sex offender of the grossest kind.”
Remulla described the images, which he said numbered 7,000 and featured children as young as 10 and 11, as “the most deplorable displays of impunity towards sexual activity that I have ever seen.” They also included one video, and all depicted under-age children of Asian, Latin and European descent.
Speaking at the press conference, Remulla reportedly said: “There are indications suggesting that the son may also be involved in the crime. But only as a person of interest so far, he is not yet treated as a suspect.
We have witnesses that underaged girls are brought to his house and we are following it up.”
Remulla said Markle Jr. had claimed to be making TikTok videos with the girls, but that authorities had not found any young girls on his TikTok account.
Police were investigating whether he was involved, and Remulla said they would know in “the next few days.”
The images were discovered at the property where Markle Sr. had lived before returning to the United States earlier this year, police have said.
Markle Sr., who is reported to be living in a dementia care home, called the allegations “sick lies,” though he admitted he had travelled to the Philippines to pay for sex.
He moved to the Philippines in 2025. In December of that year he had his leg amputated during life-saving surgery.
Mexican authorities also raided a lock-up in Rosarito, rented by Markle Sr., after the Daily Mail reported it had discovered child abuse images there.
The Duchess of Sussex cut off contact with her father last year, telling him he would never see his grandchildren, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, again. She learned of allegations against him in 2019, through a letter from Roslyn Loveless, her father’s first wife.
The letter was delivered to Meghan through the Metropolitan Police, and she said she was given assurances the claims were being investigated.
However, after the allegations emerged last month, the Met said it had not shared the details with any other law enforcement agencies. In a statement describing the allegations as troubling and disturbing, Meghan said: “I hope it can now be understood that, despite certain media publications’ distortion over the years, any distance from my father, and my choice to not allow him to have contact with our children, was for one reason: to protect them.”
