A third man has been charged over suspected arson attacks at properties and a car linked to Keir Starmer.
Petro Pochynok, 34, has been charged with conspiracy to commit arson with intent to endanger life and will appear at Westminster magistrates court on Wednesday morning.
Pochynok has been accused of conspiring with fellow Ukrainian Roman Lavrynovych and Stanislav Carpiuc, a Ukrainian-born Romanian national, who have both also been charged.
His arrest on Monday in the Chelsea area of west London was made by counter-terrorism officers, who are leading the investigation into three incidents.
A Metropolitan police spokesperson said: “Petro Pochynok 34, of north London, a Ukrainian national, has been charged with conspiracy to commit arson with intent to endanger life.”
Two of the fires took place in Kentish Town, north London. One was at the prime minister’s family home in north-west London, which he lets to his sister-in-law. The blaze was reported to police by firefighters in the early hours of 12 May. Police said damage was caused to the property’s entrance but nobody was hurt.
A car that Starmer sold to a neighbour last year was set alight four days earlier on the same street.
On 11 May, firefighters dealt with a small fire at the front door of a house where the Labour leader is understood to have lived in the 1990s before it was converted into flats.
Police said all the incidents had “connections with a high-profile public figure” and so officers from the Met’s counter-terrorism command were leading the investigation.
Lavrynovych, 21, of Sydenham, south-east London, was the first to be arrested over the incidents and was charged with three counts of arson with intent to endanger life. He denied the charges in a police interview.
Lavrynovych appeared in court on Friday where he did not enter a plea. He was remanded in custody until a hearing at the Old Bailey scheduled for 6 June.
Carpiuc appeared at Westminster magistrates court on Tuesday and was remanded in custody to appear alongside Lavrynovych on the same date.
Anyone with information that could assist the investigation has been asked to contact the Met.
