Arson attacks on Starmer property allegedly plotted by Russian-speaking ‘El Money’

The prosecution’s case is that man 'must have intended to endanger — to risk — the lives of the people living inside those houses'

Arson attacks on properties linked to Keir Starmer were ‘planned and directed’, a court heard. Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA

A series of arson attacks on property linked to British prime minister Keir Starmer were orchestrated by a Russian-speaking contact called “El Money” who promised payment in cryptocurrency, a court has heard.

Ukrainians Roman Lavrynovych, aged 22, Petro Pochynok, aged 35, and Romanian Stanislav Carpiuc, aged 27, are accused of plotting the series of fires in north London last spring on the orders of the Telegram contact.