Fourth man arrested at Stansted Airport in connection with Sir Keir Starmer arson attacks in north London
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A fourth man has been arrested by police investigating fires at two properties and a car linked to Sir Keir Starmer.
Cops say the 48-year-old was detained at Stansted Airport in Essex earlier today on suspicion of conspiracy to commit arson with intent to endanger life.
The arrest is connected to a probe into a vehicle blaze on May 8, a fire at the entrance of a property on May 11 and a fire at a residential address on May 12.
The man - who has not yet been named - has been taken to a London police station, where he currently remains in police custody.
Three men have already been charged in connection with the fires, Ukrainians Petro Pochynok, 34, and Roman Lavrynovych, 21, and Ukrainian-born Romanian national Stanislav Carpiuc, 26, who are all due to appear at the Old Bailey on Friday.
Pochynok was charged with conspiracy to commit arson with intent to endanger life. He was arrested in the Chelsea area of London on May 19.
The charge relates to three arson incidents: a vehicle fire in Kentish Town, a fire at the Prime Minister's private home in the same street, and another blaze at an address where he previously lived in the Islington area.
One of the fires took place in the early hours of May 12 at the property where Sir Keir lived before he became Prime Minister and moved into Downing Street.
A car was torched in the same street four days earlier on May 8.
The other fire took place on May 11 at the front door of a house converted into flats in Islington.
Pochynok has been accused of conspiring with Lavrynovych and Carpiuc.
Lavrynovych, 21, of Sydenham, south-east London, has already been charged with three counts of arson with intent to endanger life in connection with the fires.
He denied the charges in a police interview. He appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court last month and was remanded in custody until a further hearing at the Old Bailey scheduled for June 6.
Carpiuc, 26, appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court on May 20 and was remanded in custody to appear alongside Lavrynovych on the same date.
Sir Keir has let his £2million private home in the Kentish Town area of north London to his sister-in-law on a peppercorn rent since he moved into 10 Downing Street following his general election victory.
The property was set alight in the early hours of May 12, with the London Fire Brigade alerting police to reports of a fire there at 1.35am.
The blaze damaged the porch of the property but no one was hurt.
Firefighters were able to bring it under control within 20 minutes, stopping it from spreading further indoors.
It came just 24 hours after a flat the Prime Minister previously lived at, in the nearby Islington area, caught fire.
Firefighters attended the blaze, helping one person to safety, with the door of the property suffering fire damage.
On May 8, in the same street as Sir Keir's Kentish Town property, a car he sold to a neighbour last year also burst into flames.
The new owner of the Toyota Rav 4 is understood to have thought the fire started because of a faulty battery.
The hybrid car was completely destroyed in the blaze, which occurred on VE Day.
All three targets of the arson attacks have 'previous connections with a high-profile public figure', the Metropolitan Police confirmed - so officers from the force's Counter Terrorism Command are leading the investigation.
Anyone with information that could assist the investigation is being asked to call police on 101 quoting CAD 441/12 May.
