A senior detective shot by dissident gunmen in Northern Ireland has been discharged from hospital to continue his recovery at home. DCI John Caldwell was shot several times at a sports centre in Omagh in February. He had been putting balls into a car with his young son after coaching a youth sports team when he was targeted. Caldwell was critically ill for some time at Altnagelvin hospital in Derry, and has been left with life-changing injuries. Police have blamed the New IRA for the attack, which they are treating as attempted murder. The terrorism threat level in the region has since been raised to severe, meaning an attack is considered highly likely. More than a dozen people have been arrested in connection with the incident but nobody has been charged. There is a £150,000 reward for information relating to the attack. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said: “The Police Service of Northern Ireland can confirm that DCI John Caldwell was discharged from hospital today, Thursday 20 April, to continue his recovery. We would ask that John and his family are given privacy at this time.” The attack in February united political leaders in condemnation. There were also public rallies to show solidarity with the PSNI chief constable, Simon Byrne, Caldwell and his family. Rishi Sunak visited Caldwell in hospital last week. Speaking at a dinner at Hillsborough Castle on Wednesday night, the prime minister said Caldwell had told him that Northern Ireland could not go back to its violent past. “We sat together and talked about the society he loves and about his ordeal. He told me, ‘we can’t go back’,” Sunak said. “We can’t go back. If there is one message from this hall tonight, one message from the people of Northern Ireland to the world, it is surely this: we will never go back.”