Accused firebugs deny synagogue attack

Two alleged arsonists have denied trying to torch a 100-year-old synagogue that was being sold to a Somali Muslim organisation. Moses Edwards, 45, and Domonic Turner, 31, are said to have carried out an attack on East London Central Synagogue on 5 May. Edwards was allegedly in contact with someone using an Iraqi phone number shortly before they used wine bottles containing an accelerant to start the blaze. Police and firefighters attended the scene on Nelson Street shortly after 5.15am,…