By Mark Duell
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A man was yesterday charged with posting offensive comments on Facebook about April Jones.
Matthew Wood, 20, from Chorley, Lancashire, will appear at the town's magistrates' court today over comments posted about the missing five-year-old girl from Machynlleth, Wales.
He was arrested and charged under Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 with sending a message or other matter that is grossly offensive on a public electronic communications network.
The charge comes after comments he allegedly made were posted online on his Facebook account.
The posting allegedly relates to Madeleine McCann - the British girl aged three who vanished in 2007 from the Algarve, Portugal - and was made last Thursday, reported the Lancashire Evening Post.
[ed. Noticeably, none of the news outlets are conveying what was actually said leaving out a potentially key piece of this puzzle. So far it looks like freedom of speech takes another baseball bat to the face from big brother over-policing...]
