Caroline Ansell MP
A factory worker has been charged with allegedly making threats against a Conservative MP on Facebook, police have said.
Mark Sands, 50, is accused of sending an "offensive, indecent, obscene or menacing message" against Eastbourne and Willingdon MP Caroline Ansell.
Sands, of Upperton Gardens, Eastbourne, will appear at Hastings Magistrates' Court on March 15, Sussex Police said.
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