{"id":16530,"date":"2026-04-18T09:19:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T09:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/16530\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T09:19:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T09:19:21","slug":"three-people-charged-in-connection-with-arson-attack-in-north-west-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/16530\/","title":{"rendered":"Three people charged in connection with arson attack in north west London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three people have been charged in connection with an arson attack at the premises of a Persian-language media organisation in north west London on 15 April.<\/p>\n<p>Oisin McGuinness, 21 (28.03.2005), of Watford, Nathan Dunn, 19 (07.11.2006), of Watford and a 16-year-old boy from north London were all charged with arson with intent to endanger life. All three are British nationals.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, McGuinness was also charged with dangerous driving. All three are due to appear at Westminster Magistrates\u2019 Court on Friday, 17 April.<\/p>\n<p>At around 20:30hrs on Wednesday, 15 April, officers on proactive patrols in north west London were informed of the incident where an ignited container had been thrown into the premises.<\/p>\n<p>The container landed in a carpark, where the fire immediately put itself out and there were no reported injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Urgent enquiries were carried out and it was established that the suspects had left the area in a black SUV.<\/p>\n<p>A police Armed Response Vehicle (ARV), which was in the area located a vehicle matching this description and began a pursuit. It later crashed on Ballards Lane, close to the junction with Woodberry Gardens, N12.<\/p>\n<p>Three males &#8211; aged 16, 19 and 21- were arrested on suspicion of arson endangering life and taken into police custody and following liaison with and authorisation from the Crown Prosecution Service, they were subsequently charged as above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people have been charged in connection with an arson attack at the premises of a Persian-language media&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[3286,27,3284],"class_list":{"0":"post-16530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-charge","9":"tag-london","10":"tag-north-london"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116424970429027439","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}