The UK police arrest the second man with the Starmer Arsen attacks

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Metropolitan police said that a second man was arrested in relation to the alleged premeditated burning attacks targeting the properties associated with Prime Minister Kiir Starmer.

The 26 -year -old suspect is arrested at Luton Airport on Saturday, charges against Roman Lavrenovich, a Ukrainian citizen, this week, after three fires, including one at the Starmer family home.

The anti -terrorist police were leading the investigation. Lavrenovich, 21, was accused of three charges of deliberate burning with the intention of endangering life. The police said that the second suspect, who was not called the investigators and was not charged yet, was arrested for similar reasons.

“The 26 -year -old was arrested about 13: 45 hours on Saturday, May 17, at London Loton Airport on suspicion of burning deliberate operations with the intention of life,” the police said in a statement.

“The anti -terrorist officers were arrested from the Special Operations Unit in the Eastern Region. The man has been transferred to the sponsorship of the police in London.”

“All (fires) have previous links with a high -level public figure, and therefore the officers of the MET’s terrorism have led the investigation of fires.”

Besides the fire at the home of the Starmer family in Kentish Town North London – who was understood that he had been hired since Dongling Street entered last year – the Prime Minister’s fire was caught once in Ezlington, as a car he had one day in the same street did as the family home, all within a week.

At a hearing in the Westminster Judge Court on Friday, Lavrenovich was arrested before a hearing in Old Billy on June 6. He was first arrested on Tuesday.

His legal team did not ask for the guarantee.

Prosecutor Sarah Barzelska told the court that his alleged violation was currently “unsuccessful”.

PRZYBYLSKA said that Lavrenovich denied the deliberate burning when an interview under caution. I claimed that he used the “accelerated” to start fires.

Lavrenovich spoke only to confirm his identity and translation by Ukrainian translator.