London police on 15 May charged Roman Lavrynovych, a 21-year-old Ukrainian citizen of Ukraine, in the case of fires in two houses and a car linked to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the BBC reported on 15 May, citing a law enforcers’ report.
The charges are three counts of arson with intent to endanger life.
The man was arrested in south-east London on the morning of Tuesday, 13 May. Lavrynowicz is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 16 May.
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.