{"id":16960,"date":"2025-05-18T15:02:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T15:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/18\/uk-police-make-second-arrest-in-connection-with-fires-linked-to-pm-starmer\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T15:02:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T15:02:34","slug":"uk-police-make-second-arrest-in-connection-with-fires-linked-to-pm-starmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/18\/uk-police-make-second-arrest-in-connection-with-fires-linked-to-pm-starmer\/","title":{"rendered":"UK police make second arrest in connection with fires linked to PM Starmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmasgy7a7002t27qkhos34jk1@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            British police said they had arrested a second person in connection with a series of arson attacks at properties linked to Prime Minister Keir Starmer in North London, a day after a Ukrainian man was remanded in custody over the fires.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmash2sv40003356myd2zajts@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Police said in a statement on Saturday that a 26-year-old was arrested at London\u2019s Luton Airport on suspicion of conspiracy to commit arson with intent to endanger life, and listed the same incidents which had involved properties connected to Starmer.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmash2sv40004356m8jhzfv98@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Roman Lavrynovych, a 21-year-old Ukrainian, appeared at Westminster Magistrates\u2019 court on Friday accused of three counts of arson with intent to endanger life over the three fires, which took place last week.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmash2sv40005356muaczbwwj@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            British police were last week called to a blaze at the property in Kentish Town, north London \u2014 the constituency Starmer represents. No one was injured, but the entrance to the home was damaged.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmash2sv40006356m5yoqoz82@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Lavrynovych was arrested the following day in connection with that fire and two further incidents &#8211; a fire at the entrance to an apartment block in nearby Islington and a fire involving a car, a Toyota RAV4, in Kentish Town, both taking place on separate days.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmash2sv40007356m7wrji2bo@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The car and both the properties were linked to Starmer, the court heard. Counter-terrorism police led the investigation given the involvement of such a high-profile public figure, the police said.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British police said they had arrested a second person in connection with a series of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}