A Protestant woman has said she will leave her Ballymena home of 20 years after a petrol bomb attack which she said had been motivated by sectarianism.
Two petrol bombs were thrown at Jackie McGuire's house in Millfield at 1am yesterday (Friday) in an attack she described as attempted murder.
The 39-year-old said the attack was the latest in a wave of incidents directed at the home where she lives with her sons, 19-year-old John and 16-year-old Lee.
Police are treating the attack as sectarian.
Ms McGuire said her house had been paint bombed eight days ago with a device thrown through glass in the front door which left green paint splattered on the floor and walls of the hall.
Because of the number of attacks on her home she has had a hidden camera fitted outside her home. She said it had shown that at least two people threw petrol bombs at the house yesterday.
"The night of the paint-bomb attack they shouted that we had two weeks to get out but they didn't even give us two weeks before these petrol bombs were thrown – that was only a week ago," she said.
"This is the fourth incident at my home.
"Last year we had our back windows smashed but thankfully nobody was hurt.
"Then in May this year we had our front window broken and then the paint bomb happened on Thursday of last week. We had decided to stick it out after those incidents but now with these petrol bombs I have had enough.
"This was attempted murder. This was done because we are Protestants."
The petrol bombs thrown yesterday struck the outside of the house and caused scorch damage. No-one was injured.
Ms McGuire was asleep at the time of the attack but her son John was getting something to eat when he heard the thump of a stone hitting the house.
"He ran up and got me up and we just saw the flash of the petrol bomb at the front of the house," she said.
"I have been here 20 years and have good neighbours. This is a mixed estate but we think it is people coming from nearby estates and other areas doing this."
She added: "I have just had enough and we have no choice but to get out."
Ms Maguire's house is close to the boarded up property from which a Protestant family left earlier this year after a sectarian attack.
After yesterday's petrol-bomb attack, graffiti saying 'CRF attack XO' – using mocking kisses and hugs – appeared elsewhere in the Millfield estate.
It is believed a group is styling itself as the Catholic Reaction Force.
On Thursday graffiti from the CRF, which said it would not sit back amid loyalist attacks, was daubed in a prominent position at the nearby Cushendall Road Roundabout.
