{"id":29665,"date":"2024-08-03T17:06:38","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T14:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=29665"},"modified":"2024-08-03T17:06:38","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T14:06:38","slug":"uk-police-two-more-charged-over-alleged-russia-linked-arson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/03\/uk-police-two-more-charged-over-alleged-russia-linked-arson\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Police: Two More Charged over Alleged Russia-linked Arson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two more people have been charged as part of the investigation into an arson attack on a Ukrainian business in London in March, an attack allegedly linked to Russia, British police said on Saturday.<br \/>\nJakeem Barrington Rose, 22, and Ugnius Asmena, 19, have both been charged with aggravated arson. Rose was also charged with two counts of possessing an offensive weapon, London\u2019s Metropolitan Police said in a statement.<br \/>\nBritish authorities had previously accused five other men of being involved in the attack, including for offences under the National Security Act over &#8220;activity likely to benefit Russia&#8221;, according to court records.<br \/>\n\u201cWhile these are very serious allegations, I want to reassure the public that we do not believe there to be any wider threat to them in connection with this matter,\u201d Commander Dominic Murphy, head of the Met&#8217;s Counter Terrorism Command, said, of the latest charges.<br \/>\nIn May, a Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman said the British allegations of Russian involvement in the attack were absurd and provocative.<br \/>\nRelations between Russia and Britain have long been strained, and have deteriorated further since Moscow&#8217;s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.<br \/>\nThe suspects in the arson case will go on trial in June next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0 Two more people have been charged as part of the investigation into an arson attack on a Ukrainian business in London in March, an attack allegedly linked to Russia, British police said on Saturday. Jakeem Barrington Rose, 22, and Ugnius Asmena, 19, have both been charged with aggravated arson. Rose was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29667,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29665\/revisions\/29667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}