Ukrainian started Starmer fires ‘because he was worried about his gran’

A Ukrainian who set fire to two homes linked to Sir Keir Starmer told a court he did so because a Russian man had threatened his grandmother. 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 man known to them as ‘El Money’. On 12 May…