Blaze at family home of missing Lisa Dorrian

The family home of missing Bangor woman Lisa Dorrian has been seriously damaged in a fire.
By The Newsroom
Published 11th Apr 2018, 17:53 BST
Updated 11th Apr 2018, 19:11 BST
The family home of Lisa Dorrian badly damaged in fire. Pictures by Jonathan Porter/PressEyeThe family home of Lisa Dorrian badly damaged in fire. Pictures by Jonathan Porter/PressEye
The family home of Lisa Dorrian badly damaged in fire. Pictures by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

The blaze at their Newtownards home was started accidentally and the damage has been put at £40,000.

The Dorrian family say they are “devastated” that their family home of 22 years has been “completely ruined” and that her last remaining possessions were destroyed, the BBC reported.

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Ms Dorrian disappeared after a party at a caravan in Ballywalter in 2005. Police believe the 25-year-old shop assistant was murdered, but her body has never been found.

Fire damage at the family home of Lisa Dorrian. Lisa Dorrian (25) from Bangor disappeared after a party at a caravan park Ballyhalbert, Co. Down, in 2005. The family have campaigned since then to find her body. No one has ever been charged with her murder. Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye. 11th April 2018Fire damage at the family home of Lisa Dorrian. Lisa Dorrian (25) from Bangor disappeared after a party at a caravan park Ballyhalbert, Co. Down, in 2005. The family have campaigned since then to find her body. No one has ever been charged with her murder. Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye. 11th April 2018
Fire damage at the family home of Lisa Dorrian. Lisa Dorrian (25) from Bangor disappeared after a party at a caravan park Ballyhalbert, Co. Down, in 2005. The family have campaigned since then to find her body. No one has ever been charged with her murder. Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye. 11th April 2018

Several arrests have been made but no-one has been charged.

The family said the fire had been caused by a faulty light in the bathroom.

They said they had not only lost their own belongings in the fire but “every item of Lisa’s”.

“We do feel grateful that no-one was hurt or injured as we have been through enough as a family but we have thousands of pounds worth of damage and sadly no house insurance,” they added.

Friends have started a Go Fund Me page to help the family. Last year the family recorded a video message specifically addressed “to the person who was with Lisa at the moment she died”.

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