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Aaron Bunch

Housing, immigration triggered threat against PM, Minns

Will King has been given a suspended sentence after threatening the prime minister and NSW premier. (Aaron Bunch/AAP PHOTOS)

A lack of housing and Australia's immigration policies prompted a young man to threaten to kill the prime minister and the NSW premier on social media, a court has been told.

Will James King, 20, was sentenced on Friday to seven months' imprisonment, conditionally suspended for 12 months, for sending the threat in a direct message to Chris Minns' Instagram account in January.

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