Updated 8:43am 17 February 2013

South Shields man charged after kill threats on Facebook

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

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