A Ukrainian man was found guilty yesterday of carrying out arson attacks on property connected to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in May last year on behalf of a mystery figure he knew only as ‘EL Money’.
Over five days last May, police were called to fires at a house in north London connected to Starmer, another at a property nearby where he previously lived and where his sister-in-law still resided, and to a blaze involving a Toyota car that also used to belong to the British leader.
Roman Lavrynovych, 22, was found guilty at London’s Old Bailey Court of two counts of committing arson being reckless as to whether life was endangered.
Lavrynovych and Romanian national Stanislav Carpiuc, 27, who was born in Ukraine, were found guilty of conspiracy to commit arson. Fellow Ukrainian Petro Pochynok, 35, was acquitted of the same charge while Lavrynovych was found not guilty of committing arson with intent to risk life.
They will be sentenced on Friday.
The jury was told Lavrynovych had been offered payment to carry out arson by an account on Telegram, which used the name ‘EL Money’.
EL Money contacted him in both Russian and Ukrainian.
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