KIERAN Miles, 32, has been charged with making threats to kill New College principal Graham Taylor.

Miles, of St Giles Close, Lea, near Malmesbury, was taken into custody last Thursday. 

Miles is due to appear before magistrates in Chippenham by video link on Thursday. He is currently in custody.

The charge he faces reads: "Between 22/10/2015 and 22/01/2016 at Swindon in the county of Wiltshire caused Graham Taylor to fear that violence would be used against him by your course of conduct which you knew or ought to have known would cause fear of violence to Graham Taylor on each occasion in that you posted threatening messages on several Facebook pages, some public open profiles and uploaded video footage of yourself making serious threats.

"The threats were to kill, cause serious injury and commit criminal damage to the New College, Swindon."

He also faces a charge of possessing 1.5g of cannabis at Malmesbury.