Precious letters and photographs that survived the Loafer's Lodge fire will have to be dumped, but former tenants have won a legal battle to recover some of their property.
A man has been charged with five counts of murder and two of arson in the relation to the Wellington boarding house blaze on May 16th.
Many of the tenants escaped the building's deadly fire with only the clothes on their backs - and water damage and asbestos contamination has made it a nightmare to recover their personal items.
Oscar Upperton, a senior lawyer at Community Law, spoke to Kim Hill.
