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| Man charged over arson attacks on properties linked to Keir Starmer | Man charged over arson attacks on properties linked to Keir Starmer |
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| Met counter-terrorism police say 21-year-old Ukrainian faces three counts of arson with intent to endanger life | Met counter-terrorism police say 21-year-old Ukrainian faces three counts of arson with intent to endanger life |
| A Ukrainian national has been charged over a series of suspected arson attacks on two homes and a vehicle linked to Keir Starmer. | A Ukrainian national has been charged over a series of suspected arson attacks on two homes and a vehicle linked to Keir Starmer. |
| Roman Lavrynovych, 21, was charged with three counts of arson with intent to endanger life. | |
| Scotland Yard’s counter-terrorism command took over an investigation after a spate of fires in north London. | Scotland Yard’s counter-terrorism command took over an investigation after a spate of fires in north London. |
| Lavrynovych was arrested in the early hours of 13 May in Sydenham, south-east London. | Lavrynovych was arrested in the early hours of 13 May in Sydenham, south-east London. |
| Bethan David, the head of the Crown Prosecution Service counter-terrorism division, said: “These charges relate to two fires at residential addresses in Islington on Sunday 11 May and in Kentish Town on Monday 12 May, as well as a car fire in Kentish Town on Thursday 8 May.” | |
| Counter-terrorism detectives investigated three incidents. One was a fire at the prime minister’s family home in north-west London, which he now lets out to his sister-in-law, the Guardian understands. The blaze was reported to police by firefighters in the early hours of Monday. | |
| Police said damage was caused to the property’s entrance but nobody was hurt. | Police said damage was caused to the property’s entrance but nobody was hurt. |
| A car that Starmer had sold to a neighbour last year was set alight four days earlier on the same street. | |
| On 11 May, firefighters dealt with a small fire at the front door of a house where the PM is understood to have lived in the 1990s, before it was converted into flats. | |
| One person was helped to safety by firefighters wearing breathing apparatus, the London fire brigade said. | |
| Lavrynovych is due to appear at Westminster magistrates court on 16 May. | Lavrynovych is due to appear at Westminster magistrates court on 16 May. |