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The Metropolitan Police have arrested a 3rd man over the suspected arson assaults on properties related to Sir Keir Starmer.
A 34-year-old was arrested in Chelsea on Monday morning and brought into custody on suspicion of conspiracy to commit arson with intent to hazard life, the drive mentioned.
The arrest pertains to three fires, together with one at Starmer’s household dwelling in Kentish City, and one other involving a automobile beforehand owned by the prime minister on the identical road. A 3rd hearth was at a property in Islington that can also be linked to the prime minister.
Over the weekend, a 26-year-old suspect was arrested at Luton airport in the identical investigation. That man remains to be in custody after police obtained a warrant of additional detention from Westminster Magistrates’ Court docket, the Met mentioned on Monday.
A 3rd suspect, Ukrainian nationwide Roman Lavrynovych, was charged final week with three counts of arson with an intent to hazard life.
At a listening to at Westminster Justice of the Peace’s Court docket on Friday Lavrynovych, 21, was remanded in custody forward of an look on the Outdated Bailey on June 6.
At Friday’s listening to, prosecutor Sarah Przybylska advised the courtroom that his alleged offending was presently “unexplained”.
She added that he had denied arson when interviewed underneath warning, and alleged he had used “accelerants” to start out the fires.
The courtroom was advised he had no mounted handle within the UK, and had been staying with family in Sydenham, south-east London, the place he was arrested on Tuesday night time. His legal professionals didn’t request bail.
The investigation is being led by the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command due to the potential connection between the fires and “a high-profile public determine”.
At Prime Minister’s Questions final week, Starmer mentioned the fires have been “an assault on all of us, on democracy, and the values that we stand for”.
