Belfast knife attack disorder: I will never get over watching my home of 13 years burn down

Corrie, who has lived on the same east Belfast street for more than a decade, said his house went up in flames.

Speaking to BBC News NI outside his home on Wednesday morning, he said he was “gutted”.

“I told them before they were lighting the car, I said ‘this is my property’.

“See standing there watching your house get burnt… that’s a feeling I’ll never get over,” he says.

While he is also angry about the attack in north Belfast, he asked: “What does this resolve? What does this actually do? Burning cars out, wrecking your own community and now one of their own has just lost their home.”

He said by the time firefighters arrived his house was “already engulfed in flames” and everything is destroyed.

“There’s stuff in there that’s sentimental, can’t be replaced, that you’ll not get again.”

However, he’s thankful his kids were not in the house at the time.