Moment Wagner Group arsonist arrested in B&Q car park | News

This is the moment a Wagner Group arsonist was arrested in a B&Q car park.

An arson attack on industrial units in Leyton, east London, in March 2024 caused nearly £1 million in damage, put lives at risk and required 60 firefighters to extinguish.

The warehouse was targeted by the terrorist Wagner Group because it was used to deliver humanitarian aid and StarLink satellite equipment to Ukraine.

Then architect Dylan Earl set his sights on more “missions”, targeting a restaurant and wine shop in Mayfair and the kidnapping of the restaurant’s owner, wealthy Russian dissident Evgeny Chichvarkin.

The court heard Earl was a member of numerous pro-Russian propaganda channels and was motivated by “simple and outrageous greed”.

On Friday 24 October, Earl and five other teenagers were sentenced at the Old Bailey for what the judge described as a “planned campaign of terror and sabotage” in the interests of the Russian state.