Ukrainian accused of Keir Starmer fires ‘needed cash to send to his dad’

A Ukrainian accused of setting fire to two homes linked to Sir Keir Starmer told a court he needed money to send to his sick father in his war torn homeland, a court heard. Ukrainian nationals Roman Lavrynovych, 22, and Petro Pochynok, 35, along with Romanian Stanislav Carpiuc, 27, are accused of a conspiracy to torch two homes and a vehicle linked to the Prime Minister. They were allegedly paid to carry out the arson attacks by a Russian speaker…