Briton charged over Facebook threats to kill 200 US children

 
South Tyneside Magistrates' Court
9 February 2013
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A 24-year-old British man was remanded in custody by magistrates today after he was charged with threatening to kill 200 US schoolchildren.

Reece Elliott appeared at South Tyneside Magistrates' Court for a 30-minute hearing where he also faced a charge of making a malicious communication.

Threatening posts made on a memorial page for a girl who was killed in a Tennessee road accident led to thousands of children being kept off school in the Warren County area of the state on Thursday.

Elliott, of Shrewsbury Terrace, South Tyneside, did not enter pleas to the charges.

Kevin Smallcombe, defending, said Elliott has no passport and no desire to visit Warren County.

Jim Lynch, chairman of the bench, said he would be remanded into custody.

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