A man who plotted to carry out arson attacks on property connected to Sir Keir Starmer has been deported, the Home Office says.

Stanislav Carpiuc, 28, was one of two men convicted over the attacks, which took place in May last year and targeted a car and two houses.

The Ukrainian-born Romanian national was sentenced to two years in prison in June. The Home Office said he had been removed from the UK, without specifying where he had been sent.

The BBC revealed the attacks were ordered on behalf of Russia, with an anonymous handler known as EL promising payment to Carpiuc's accomplice, Roman Lavrynovych.

Lavrynovych, a 22-year-old Ukrainian national, was sentenced to seven years imprisonment in June.

A Home Office spokesperson said: "This was an abhorrent attack and the conviction and imprisonment of these men should send a clear message to anyone blinded by the promise of money from strangers. You will be caught and face severe consequences.

"This individual has now been deported from the UK," it added, referring to Carpiuc.

The attacks, which took place while Sir Keir was prime minister, began on 8 May 2025, when a car he had previously owned was found on fire on a street where he used to live in Kentish Town.

Three days later, on 11 May, a fire was discovered at flats linked to Sir Keir in nearby Islington. He had lived there years before.

The next day another fire was discovered at the entrance to Sir Keir's Kentish Town home, which he was renting out to his sister-in-law, Judith Alexander.

She told the trial of billowing black smoke rising up the stairs while she was in the house with her partner and her daughter.

Lavrynovych and Carpiuc were found guilty of conspiring together and "with others" to damage property by fire between 1 April and 13 May 2025.

A BBC investigation revealed the arson attacks were part of an extensive campaign of sabotage, provocation and lies leading all the way to the Russian state.

The handler EL, who directed Lavrynovych, offered Russian citizenship in return for other attacks and glorified President Vladimir Putin.

Evidence identified by the BBC suggested EL was a young Russian diplomat.

In May last year, three arson attacks targeted the prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer. Two properties and a car were set alight. But who lit the fires and why? Daniel De Simone investigates.