Man charged over arson assaults on homes connected to Keir Starmer

A Ukrainian nationwide has been charged over a chain of suspected arson assaults on two properties and a car connected to Keir Starmer.

Police stated Roman Lavrynovych, 21, used to be charged with 3 counts of arson with intent to hazard existence.

Scotland Yard’s counter-terrorism command took over an investigation after a spate of fires in north London.

Lavrynovych used to be arrested within the early hours of 13 May in Sydenham, south-east London.

Bethan David, the top of the Crown Prosecution Service counter-terrorism department, stated: “These charges relate to two fires at residential addresses in Islington on Sunday May 11 and in Kentish Town on Monday May 12, as well as a car fire in Kentish Town on Thursday May 8.”

Counter-terrorism detectives investigated 3 incidents. One used to be a fireplace on the top minister’s circle of relatives house in north-west London, which he now we could out. The blaze used to be reported to police by means of firefighters within the early hours of Monday.

Police stated injury used to be led to to the valuables’s front however no one used to be harm.

Lavrynovych is because of seem at Westminster magistrates court docket on 16 May.