Arrest over suspected arson on properties linked to PM

Police have arrested a man on attacks with fires on fire for two properties and a car linked to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.

The 21 -year -old was arrested at Sydenham, in the southeast of London, under suspicion of a fire caused with the intention of endangering life and remains in custody, said the Metropolitan Police.

The emergency services responded to a fire in the private house of the Prime Minister in Kentish Town, north of London, early on Monday.

On Sunday, the teams were called to a small fire on the front or a house turned into floors in the nearby Islington: it is understood that a Sir Keir property has live in the 1990s.

Police are also looking at a small fire in the car that came Thursday at the same time as the property of the city of Kentish. It is understood that the car used to belong to Sir Keir.

It is understood that the prime minister is still owning the house in Kentish Town, but lives in Downing Street. He lived there before the 2024 general elections and has been interested in Spray then.

The anti -terrorism police lead the investigation and is dealing with fires as suspects.

“A key investigation line is whether the fires are linked due to the two facilities and the vehicle that has links prior to the same public figure of high profile”, the head of the counter -attack of the Metropolitan Police, Saidic Murphy.

The automobile fire occurred just before 03:00 BST on Thursday.

Linda Perry, 80, who lives on the same street, described being awakened, saying “you could see the flames without looking outside the window.”

She told the BBC: “I could listen to two people shouting ‘fire, fire’, they looked like food deliveries. While looking out, you could see it. [the fire] Illuminating the street. “

Another street resident told the BBC that the smell of the fire that was put was “unpleasant” and described five firefighters who boarded the fire.

“This area is usefully super quiet, so this is really unusual.”

The first fire on a property was reported in Islington on Sunday after 03:00. Firefighters helped a person who used a breathing apparatus, said the London Fire Brigade.

“He is very worrying,” said a neighbor who woke up the duration of the fire and saw three firefighters parked outside.

Another neighbor said that firefighters did not wake her up, but by the police hitting her neighbor at 05:00.

Police officers were in the area until night and then returned on Monday, making houses home asking for images “even or someone who passed,” he added.

She said she and other residents had no knowledge of the link with Sir Keir, but now they care about what they can do “to protect themselves with more visits to the lack of nights.”

The second place of owned fires in Kentish Town on Monday at 01:11 and was under control about 20 minutes later.

There was damage at the entrance of the property, but no one was injured, police said.

Charles Grant, 66, who lives on the same street, told journalists that police officers looked in their garden to find a “projectile.”

“They found nothing,” he said.

On Monday, Sir Keir thanked emergency services for his work, said his official spokesman.

He added that the matter was “subject to a live investigation, so I can’t make more comments,” and refused to provide more details about who was on the property when the fire began.

The Secretary of the Interior, Yvette Cooper, told the BBC that it had been in the incidents but could not comment more.

“The police are investigating thesis incidents and have all my support in doing so,” he said.

“With any incident, there are always important groups that we will all have, but we also have confidence in our police and the work they do to investigate this incident.”

The leader of the Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, described the incident as “shocking.”

“My thoughts are with Prime Minister and his family. No one should face threats, much less people in public service,” he wrote in X.

“It is an attack on our democracy and should never be tolerated.”

CDR Murphy of the MET added: “We recognize that this research can cause a group to other public figures, particularly parliamentarians. The protection of MP is something that we take extremely seriously about all surveillance.”

Additional Billy Kenber reports