Judith Alexander was awake in bed on her phone when about 1am she heard two very loud bangs. It sounded to the prime minister’s sister-in-law like two wheelie bins had been thrown at the door. But when she looked out of a window, she saw smoke and an orange glow.
“We could see the smoke was getting thicker and going upstairs,” said Alexander, in a statement that was read to the court during the trial at the Old Bailey in London over a series of arson attacks on property linked to Keir Starmer.
