A man whose house in Belfast was “completely” destroyed during rioting in Belfast last night said he lost heirlooms left to him by his late father.
Jamie Corry, who has lived on Lendrick Street in the east of the city since 2013, said cars parked near his house were targeted last night.
“I came out that door and I told them: ‘This is my property, this is my property here,’ and then they started to light the red car up,” he said.
“So once I saw the flames starting to get bigger and bigger, I moved away from my property. I moved down the street there and watched it all. The next minute the cars started to explode, the doors started smoking, the windows started melting, and the next thing the house was going to go up on fire.”
He returned to the house on Wednesday morning and said he found possessions are destroyed, including items belonging to his late father.
“It’s destroyed, top to bottom it’s completely destroyed,” he said.
Asked what happens next, he said he would go to the Housing Executive, which runs social housing in Northern Ireland.
“I don’t know where to start,” he said. “I’m just glad my family, my kids were around at my missus’ house at the time.”