A BRITISH grandad accused of trying to drown his own daughter-in-law has been secretly dating her for years, it has been claimed.
Mark Gibbon, 62, is charged with attempted murder after allegedly forcing Jasmine Wyld’s head underwater at a Florida resort pool as the pair argued over his will.
Gibbon and Wyld, 33, are both believed to have denied being in a romantic relationship when quizzed by police, The Sun can reveal.
They were reportedly asked due to investigators seeing if it involved potential domestic violence.
But a family source revealed to the MailOnline the pair grew close to one another after they both split from their partners.
They soon got into into a relationship and have now been together for the past two years, according to the source.
They said: “Mark and Jasmine have been seeing each other for a few years, but they’ve never admitted it.
“[The couple] do an awful lot together and they go away on holiday with the children a couple of times every year.
“They went to Florida two years ago and have been to Budapest where she posted pictures of them together like a couple.”
Wyld – a hairdresser – separated from Gibbon’s son Alex, 34, back in 2021 but the pair still share two young children together.
Gibbon divorced his wife and lives alone at a £800,000 semi-detached home in Beaconsfield he purchased in 2023.
The secret couple are alleged to spend a lot of time inside the large Buckinghamshire home together.
Alex has had several major issues with his dad in the past including being jailed in 2024 for driving into Gibbon with an £80,000 Porsche Cayenne.
The pair also became embroiled in a public row in 2023 after Alex left his dad’s business for an unknown reason.
The family source confirmed that Alex and Gibbon no longer speak.
They added: “He feels an awful betrayal at how his dad has struck up a relationship with the mother of his two children.”
Gibbon is now behind bars over a separate family falling out with Wyld.
The couple were on holiday at the Solterra Resort in Devenport, near Disney World, Florida with the two children.
Gibbon and Wyld soon began arguing over the “stipulations of his will” around a pool, according to US police.
The granddad then pushed Jasmine’s head “under the water and held her down multiple times”, according to the arrest affidavit.
She told cops after the ordeal she “could not breathe and believed that she was going to drown,” according to Polk’s County Sheriff’s Office.
According to deputies, Jasmine was forced to “fight Mark in order to get away from him and from under the water but he kept pushing her back under”.
Her nine-year-old daughter then tried to help despite having no idea what was going on as she leapt into the water to her mother’s defence
She tried desperately to intervene, but Gibbon allegedly kept pushing her away.
Jasmine spotted some two women in the distance and screamed at them to call 911.
Gibbon is said to have stopped only when the sisters said they were calling the sheriff’s office.
He now faces one count of attempted murder and two counts of battery.
The family source admitted the pair had been through troubling times of late.
They said: “But I have been told that Jasmine was unhappy that they have been in a relationship for a few years and she is not named in his will.”
When questioned, Gibbon allegedly admitted to pushing Jasmine underwater, but insisted he hadn’t been trying to drown her.
He claimed they had been drinking, began arguing and that she slapped him – which triggered the fight, reports Law & Crime.
Gibbon is a lighting technician, who runs his own firm called MRG Lighting.
He has worked on music videos for Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith and Paloma Faith, according to his website, as well as on film and TV sets.
He is also listed as the only director of Sage Hairdressing.
The Sun has reached out to Gibbon for comment.
AMERICANS will soon be forced to shell out more cash for their packages when a new law takes effect on August 29.
As the removal of the de minimis exemption looms under the Trump administration’s new regulations, consumers can expect that orders they receive from abroad will cost a pretty penny more.
In the coming weeks, Americans will pay new fees on small packages being shipped internationally under an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on July 30, 2025.
The order, titled “Suspending Duty-Free De Minimis Treatment for All Countries,” will officially eliminate a de minimis loophole that permitted foreign goods valued at $800 or less to enter the US duty-free and with minimal customs oversight.
Trump previously eliminated the de minimis exemption for China and Hong Kong in May of this year, sparking fears that prices on goods from Shein and Temu would soar.
Now, the new regulations will impact incoming shipments from every country around the globe and take effect starting at 12:01 am eastern daylight time on August 29, 2025.
Non-postal shipments from private carriers such as FedEx, UPS, and DHL will be subject to the standard formal entry process once the deadline hits.
This means these shipments will be subject to all applicable duties and taxes based on the product’s Harmonized Tariff Schedule, or HTS, code and what country they come from.
They will be charged an ad valorem duty, which is a percentage of the item’s declared value.
For example, a purchase from Europe will incur a 15% tax based on current tariff rates, while a shipment from Brazil will see an extra 50% tacked on.
Products bought from platforms like Amazon Haul, Temu, Shein, and eBay will soon have an additional surcharge based on the tariff rate of their country of origin.
If a private carrier is unable to calculate the specific tariff, a flat fee of $80 per package will apply regardless of the item’s value.
Postal packages entering the country through the international postal network, such as China Post to the United States Postal Service, will be subject to a different tariff structure.
These shipments will either see a new, specific fee tacked on, or the standard ad valorem duty. The higher of the two charges will be added.
The abolition of the de minimis exemption will have minimal impact on bona fide gifts between individuals and personal allowances for travelers, which fall under separate policies.
The de minimis expemption was officially implemented in 1938 to avoid the administrative cost of taxing low-value imports, initially set at $1.
DONALD Trump has imposed 10% tariffs on Chinese imports and Beijing has retaliated. Trump also hit Canada and Mexico with 25% tariffs, but walked back many of them on March 6
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The value maximum has climbed in line with inflation, reaching $5 by 1978, $200 in 1993, and $800 by 2016.
The latter change aligned with the exponential growth of e-commerce, with the number of small shipments spiking from 220 million in 2016 to more than one billion in 2023.
Allowing packages valued at $800 or less into the US duty-free created what many believed to be an unintentional loophole in our country’s trade policy.
Fast-fashion retailers, drop shipping businesses, and direct-to-consumer brands have capitalized on the de minimis exemption for years, building their entire business models around sending small, individual packages directly to American shoppers.
The Trump administration is moving to end the exemption under the premise that it creates a loophole for countries to dodge tariffs and potentially allows products made with forced labor to enter the US as well as illegal shipments such as fentanyl.
Once the de minimis exemption is axed, the roughly 1.36 billion annual shipments to the US from foreign countries that were previously tax-exempt will cost consumers more.
Check out other changes in the works under the Trump administration, including a coin phase out that will force Americans to pay an extra $6 million each year.
Plus, millions of Americans will see $1,000 checks automatically deposited in their accounts – see when yours is on the way.
STEPHEN A. Smith sent a warning to the WNBA that President Donald Trump could intervene in the league’s treatment of Caitlin Clark.
The fiery ESPN personality made his stance clear on the WNBA‘s physicality of Clark during Thursday’s edition of First Take.
Smith‘s message comes following a Wall Street Journal editorial on Clark last week.
The publication called for a congressional investigation in response to the WNBA continuing to tolerate what’s considered hostile treatment sent to the Indiana Fever superstar, Clark.
On Thursday, Smith let it be known that his sources in the political world told him that Trump knows the current WNBA climate and could be ready to launch a government investigation into Clark.
“I am not guessing on this,” Smith said on First Take alongside host Molly Qerim.
“I didn’t go on my show and just bring it up for no reason.
“I happen to know a few people who have said this is something that , ‘do not be surprised if President Trump speaks on eventually.’
“If that man decides this is something that can feed his base, that can ingratiate himself with that kind of audience that is protective of a Caitlin Clark… and they come to a conclusion that they believe she is being unfairly treated, that is going to be a problem for the WNBA.”
Smith then issued a warning to the WNBA and its players over its seemingly overly physical play with Clark.
“(Trump) pays attention to this kind of stuff and this is the kind of stuff that can feed that base. So I’m saying to the WNBA, because I support the WNBA, I want them to succeed, I want all these ladies to get their money, I want them to have their success, I’m just warning them – watch it. Because if he gets involved and that base gets involved, because somehow, some way they embrace victimhood on the part of Caitlin Clark it could be a problem,” he said.
Smith’s First Take warning comes after he commented about the Wall Street Journal article and said there is enough evidence to justify an investigation.
“Caitlin Clark is going to be politicized. It’s coming. I can smell it,” Smith said on August 5 on his own YouTube show.
“17 flagrant fouls have been called against people for beating up on Caitlin Clark.
“That’s practically double for what’s happened for any other player in the league.”
Still, a government investigation into a sports league’s physical play on a player would be unlike anything anyone’s ever seen before.
Fans reacted to Smith’s warning that Trump could launch an investigation into the treatment of Clark.
“Comical,” one wrote.
“No need for an investigation,” another commented.
“What is Smith talking about?” a third asked.
In the meantime, there won’t be any claims of poor in-game treatment of Clark anytime soon.
The two-time All-Star Clark has no timeline on a return date as she has been out since suffering a groin injury on July 15.
