{"id":639790,"date":"2026-06-15T12:13:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T12:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/639790\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T12:13:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T12:13:05","slug":"uk-court-convicts-2-men-of-plot-to-torch-houses-car-linked-to-uk-pm-starmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/639790\/","title":{"rendered":"UK court convicts 2 men of plot to torch houses, car linked to UK PM Starmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LONDON &#8212; Two men were convicted Monday of a plot last year to <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/keir-starmer-fire-home-police-arrest-318507c3eed9a1c0a9e694d4c966e385\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">set fire<\/a> to two houses and a car linked to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Ukrainian nationals Roman Lavrynovych, 22, and Stanislav Carpiuc, a 27-year-old Romanian citizen, were found guilty of a conspiracy to damage property by fire. Petro Pochynok, 35, was acquitted of the charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The fires in May 2025 damaged the home Starmer moved out of when he became prime minister, as well as an apartment building he once owned a share of and destroyed his former Toyota SUV. Nobody was injured in the blazes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON &#8212; Two men were convicted Monday of a plot last year to set fire to two houses&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[79930,1343,2686,59,232,57,58,28150,50,229,56,54,55,231],"class_list":["post-639790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-arson","tag-courts","tag-fires","tag-gb","tag-general-news","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-indictments","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639790","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=639790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}