{"id":63290,"date":"2025-08-13T05:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T05:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/63290\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T05:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T05:17:09","slug":"dci-john-caldwell-two-men-charged-in-connection-with-attempted-murder-of-psni-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/63290\/","title":{"rendered":"DCI John Caldwell: Two men charged in connection with attempted murder of PSNI officer"},"content":{"rendered":"

The pair will appear in court on Wednesday\n<\/p>\n

\"Former<\/p>\n

Former Detective Chief Superintendent John Caldwell. Brian Lawless\/PA Wire<\/p>\n

Two men are set to appear in court after being charged in connection with the attempted murder of former PSNI officer John Caldwell.<\/p>\n

Mr Caldwell<\/a> was seriously injured after being shot several times at a leisure centre in Omagh in February 2023. <\/p>\n

The attack happened while he was off duty and with his young son, packing up after coaching a youth football team.<\/p>\n

Two men arrested under terrorism legislation in connection with the incident on Monday have now been charged to court.<\/p>\n

\u201cA 45-year-old man, arrested in the Stewartstown area and a man aged 25, arrested in west Belfast, have both been charged with the preparation of terrorist acts and perverting the Course of Justice,\u201d said a police spokesperson.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are due to appear at Dungannon Magistrates\u2019 Court tomorrow morning, Wednesday, August 13.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs is usual procedure, all charges will be reviewed by the Public Prosecution Service.\u201d<\/p>\n

Several people have already been arrested and charged in relation to the shooting, which police linked to dissident republicans.<\/p>\n

Mr Caldwell retired from the PSNI last December on medical grounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The pair will appear in court on Wednesday Former Detective Chief Superintendent John Caldwell. Brian Lawless\/PA Wire Two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,33689,33688,2859,50,2497,7373,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-63290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-ira","tag-john-caldwell","tag-liam-tunney","tag-news","tag-police-service-of-northern-ireland","tag-tyrone-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}