Three people, including a 16-year-old boy, have appeared in court charged in connection with the attempted firebombing of a Persian media company in north-west London.<\/p>\n
Oisin McGuinness, 21, Nathan Dunn, 19, and a 16-year-old boy appeared together in the dock at Westminster magistrates court on Friday charged with arson with intent to endanger life.<\/p>\n
The Metropolitan police said officers on patrol were told at about 8.30pm on Wednesday that an \u201cignited container\u201d had been thrown towards the site in Wembley, landing in a car park where the fire immediately went out.<\/p>\n
The offices of Volant Media, the parent company of Persian news channel Iran International, were targeted.<\/p>\n
The charge says the amount of damage caused to the grounds of Volant Media is \u201cunknown\u201d.<\/p>\n
There were no injuries and the suspects left the area in a black four-wheel-drive vehicle, police said.<\/p>\n
A number of nearby buildings were evacuated as a precaution but police assessed there was no wider risk.<\/p>\n
McGuinness has also been charged with dangerous driving in north-west London on the same date as the attempted arson.<\/p>\n
The three British nationals spoke only to confirm their personal details in the hearing.<\/p>\n
The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was remanded to the care of a local authority with conditions and will next appear at the Old Bailey on 15 May for a preliminary hearing.<\/p>\n
McGuinness and Dunn, both of Watford, Hertfordshire, were ordered to appear at the Old Bailey for a pre-trial preparation hearing on the same date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people, including a 16-year-old boy, have appeared in court charged in connection with the attempted firebombing of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-537098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}