Arsonists are thought to have set fire to the country’s biggest self-serve shoe store early Wednesday morning in a second attack on the building since the weekend.
Bani, in Mackey Street, was destroyed in the blaze sparked at around 4.40am, less than an hour after Lincoln Bain, a major shareholder in the business, had abandoned his armed night watch of the store, which is next door to a branch of the Royal Bank of Canada.
Mr Bain, a controversial journalist, lawyer and businessman, stayed overnight at the store on Monday and Tuesday night as he said intruders attempted to set the store on fire when they broke in on Sunday.
