long-running campaign<\/a> for the Troubles Permanent Disablement Scheme to be introduced, which included legal action.<\/p>\nHe believes the target of the attack on him was a police officer who drove a similar vehicle.<\/p>\n
“I lost everything on that day,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I lost my business, I lost my livelihood, I lost my home, I lost everything. I nearly lost my life obviously, but it just destroyed me.”<\/p>\n
Mr Bunting, who was 37 at the time, said the initial compensation he received was “terrible”.<\/p>\n
His medical treatment took five years and because he could not work, it had an impact on his state pension entitlement in later life.<\/p>\n
But he now receives an additional \u00a3250 a week under the victims’ scheme.<\/p>\n
“It was the greatest thing in my life financially,” Mr Bunting said.<\/p>\n
While it took 18 months for a decision to grant payments, he knows of other victims who have been waiting on outcomes for three or four years.<\/p>\n
“My heart goes out to the people who are waiting now,” he said.<\/p>\n
“You’ve victims who are elderly people and some of them might not even see it.<\/p>\n
“People then get frustrated and it affects their mental health. Worrying about it is destroying them.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Bunting lost a leg when an IRA bomb planted under his taxi exploded in Belfast in 1991.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[84,4176,4174,4175,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-131173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}