A nephew of Meghan Markle has been caught trying to bring a knife into a London area club, and blames President Donald Trump for making the city sound dangerous.
Tyler Dooley, 25, was not invited to the royal wedding, but was celebrating in Kingston, southwest of London, early Sunday when he surrendered the four-inch lock-blade knife to club bouncers, The Sun reported.
The incident occurred after midnight at nightclub Bacchus, where Dooley was celebrating with his girlfriend, mother Tracy and older brother TJ.
Dooley, a legal marijuana farmer from Oregon, and his family arrived in London earlier in the week and had planned to appear on Good Morning Britain as commentators on Meghan's wedding to Prince Harry. They were dropped by ITV on Thursday, however.
Cut out of the official post-wedding celebrations at Frogmore House in Windsor, the Dooley clan apparently decided to observe the occasion at Bacchus, a pulsating late-night dance club.
'They were all obviously a bit tipsy from celebrating the wedding, but not in bad spirits,' a witness told the Sun.
'As Tyler came up to the bouncer, he said, "I have a knife on me." He pulled it out and handed it to the staff,' the source added.
The Duchess of Sussex's nephew explained to the bouncers that 'he’d brought it from America because Donald Trump had said London wasn’t safe.'
Earlier this month, Trump claimed that knife crime in London is so bad that one unnamed hospital is 'like a war zone for horrible stabbing wounds' with 'blood all over the floors'.
Police figures for London show a 44 per cent increase in homicide for the year ending in April 2018, as well as a 21 per cent increase in knife crime.
Bouncers at Bacchus were not impressed by Dooley's explanation, however.
'They acted very calmly and dialed 999 and that’s when some local guys told him he’d get arrested. At that point he ran off,' the source said.
It is illegal to carry knives in public in the UK, unless they are folding knives with a blade under three inches. Police do not consider lock knives to be folding, since the blade does not always immediately fold.
It's unclear if Dooley would have broken any laws by bringing the blade into the country from the US, as he allegedly told bouncers he did.
London's Metropolitan Police Service said in a statement that they were called to the club at around 1.55am on Sunday.
Cops said they recovered the knife from bouncers but no arrest was made, as the suspect had left the scene.
Dooley's brother TJ is said to have returned to the scene to apologize and attempt to explain the incident to bouncers.
When a reporter from the Sun approached the Dooleys at the DoubleTree hotel in Kingston, the family declined to comment and hid inside a utility closet.
Mother Tracy Dooley was married to Meghan's half-brother Tom Markle Jr, and Meghan used to babysit the elder brother TJ as a child.
Tyler Dooley, through the company he runs with his mother, has introduced a specialty cannabis strain called 'Markle Sparkle'.
The family were bound back for America on Sunday night, according to Tracy Dooley's Facebook posts.
'Had a great time mate!' she wrote. 'We had loads of fun in London.'
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