Man charged over fire at British PM Starmer's house

16/5/2025 6:10

British police said a

21-year-old Ukrainian man had been charged with arson following

a counter-terrorism investigation into a series of fires in

London, including at Prime Minister Keir Starmer's private home.



Police were called to reports of a fire in the early hours

of Monday morning at the property in Kentish Town in north

London, the area Starmer represents in parliament. Nobody was

injured but damage was caused to the property's entrance.



Roman Lavrynovych, who was arrested the following day in

connection with the fire and two further incidents, was charged

with three counts of arson with intent to endanger life, police

said.



Police were investigating whether those two incidents - a

fire at the entrance of a property in nearby Islington on Sunday

and a vehicle fire in Kentish Town on Thursday - were linked to

the fire at Starmer's house. A BBC report said the Islington

property was also connected to the prime minister.



Lavrynovych will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on

Friday.



Starmer called the incident an "attack on all of us, on our

democracy and the values that we stand for."



Starmer lived in the Kentish Town house on a back street

with his wife and two children before he moved into his official

Number 10 Downing Street residence when he became prime minister

last July.