Fourth man arrested over fires at properties linked to UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer

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British constabulary accidental that a 4th antheral has been arrested successful transportation to a bid of fires astatine properties and a car linked to Prime Minister Keir Starmer

LONDON -- British constabulary said Monday that a 4th antheral has been arrested successful transportation to a series of fires astatine properties and a car linked to Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

The 48-year-old man, who hasn't been identified, was arrested astatine Stansted Airport adjacent London connected Monday connected suspicion of conspiracy to perpetrate arson with intent to endanger life.

No 1 was injured successful the fires that occurred betwixt May 8 and May 12 astatine a location owned by Starmer, a gathering wherever helium erstwhile lived and a car that helium had owned.

Three men person already been charged successful transportation with the fires: Ukrainians Petro Pochynok, 34, and Roman Lavrynovych, 21, and Ukrainian-born Romanian nationalist Stanislav Carpiuc, 26.

They are being held without bail earlier a June 6 proceeding astatine London’s Central Criminal Court.

Last week, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov dismissed a report successful the Financial Times that said U.K. information officials were looking into whether Russia was progressive successful the attacks.

Counterterrorism detectives led the probe due to the fact that it involves the premier minister.

Starmer called the fires “an onslaught connected each of us, connected ideology and the values that we basal for.”

Starmer and his household had moved retired of his northbound London location aft helium was elected successful July, and they unrecorded astatine the premier minister’s authoritative Downing Street residence.

A Toyota RAV4 that Starmer erstwhile owned was acceptable ablaze connected May 8, conscionable down the thoroughfare from the location wherever helium lived earlier helium became premier minister. The doorway of an flat gathering wherever helium erstwhile lived was acceptable connected occurrence connected May 11, and connected May 12 the doorway of his location was charred aft being acceptable ablaze.