British police have arrested a third man as part of an investigation into a series of arson attacks in north London, including a house fire linked to the country’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
London police said a 34-year-old man was arrested Monday morning in Chelsea, southwest London, on suspicion of conspiracy to commit arson with intent to endanger life. He has been taken into custody.
Two other men – Roman Lavrynovych, a 21-year-old Ukrainian national, and a 26-year-old man, name unknown – were also arrested.
The charges relate to three incidents: a car fire in Kentish Town in north London, a fire at the prime minister’s private home in the same street and a fire at an address where he previously lived in north-west London.
The investigation was carried out by the London Police Counter Terrorism Command.
On the night of 12 May, emergency services responded to a fire at a house in Kentish Town where Keir Starmer lived before becoming Prime Minister and moving to 10 Downing Street.Police were notified by the London Fire Brigade of a fire at this residential address at 1: 35am. The entrance to the house was damaged but no-one was injured.
A car associated with Keir Starmer had been set on fire four days earlier, on 8 May, in the same street.
On 11 May, firefighters put out a small fire at the front door of a house converted into flats in nearby Islington. According to the BBC, the Prime Minister had lived there in the 1990s.