A 21-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the attempted murder of a police officer.<\/p>\n
Eoin Carlin, of Collon Lane in Derry. appeared at Dungannon Magistrates’ Court this morning.<\/p>\n
He was arrested following an incident at Collon Lane on Thursday during which police were attacked with a hunting knife during an arrest operation.<\/p>\n
It was claimed in court that as officers moved in to make the arrest the accused had produced the knife with a five inch blade from behind his back and lashed out.<\/p>\n
An attempt was made to stab one officer in his torso but he was saved by his body armour.<\/p>\n
The other sustained a gash to his left leg which required six stitches.<\/p>\n
A PSNI Detective Constable told the court she believed she could connect Mr Carlin to the charges.<\/p>\n
She said the officer, who had been saved by his body armour, had remained on duty.<\/p>\n
She said he had described feeling the “pressure” of the knife make contact with his protective vest.<\/p>\n
The officer with the leg injury was currently incapacitated and recuperating at home, she said.<\/p>\n
As well as attempted murder, the accused also faced charges of wounding, possession of a weapon, assault and drugs offences.<\/p>\n
His solicitor told the court that his client had received treatment for mental health difficulties.<\/p>\n
He said his client had not realised for much of the incident that he was dealing with police.<\/p>\n
And he said he had enquired after the well-being of the two officers involved during police interview.<\/p>\n
There was no bail application.<\/p>\n
Mr Carlin was remanded in custody to appear again in person at Derry courthouse on 18 December.<\/p>\n
Another man appeared in court yesterday on separate offences linked to the same incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 21-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the attempted murder of a police officer. Eoin Carlin,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-165999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}