Before moving into the prime minister’s official residence at No 10 Downing Street, Starmer lived at the Kentish Town address with his wife and two children, while prosecutors said Starmer had previously lived at one of the apartments in Islington.
“The car and both properties were linked to Prime Minister Keir Starmer,” said prosecutor Sarah Przybylska.
She said that in police interviews, Lavrynovych had denied arson. At this stage the motive behind the fires was unexplained, she added.
Lavrynovych’s lawyer, James Scobie, said his client needed to be “educationally” assessed.
He added, without elaborating, that the issues in the case were likely to be narrow ones.
Describing the incident in parliament on Wednesday, Starmer called it “an attack on all of us, on our democracy and the values we stand for”.
