Man remanded over US death threats (From Hampshire Chronicle)
When news happens, text CHRON and your photos or videos to 80360. Or contact us by email & phone.
Man remanded over US death threats
11:51am Saturday 9th February 2013 in National News © Press Association 2013
A British man has been remanded on charges of threatening to kill after allegedly posting on Facebook he would kill 200 people
A 24-year-old British man has been remanded in custody by magistrates 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.
Elliott will next appear before South Tyneside magistrates at 10am on Wednesday.
