A 44-year-old man has been charged with the attempted murder of the police officer DCI John Caldwell in Northern Ireland, police said. Alan Lundy, from Flax Street, Belfast, appeared at Dungannon magistrates court on Saturday charged with attempted murder, directing terrorism and the preparation of terrorist acts. Caldwell was seriously injured after he was shot several times in front of his son at a sports complex in Omagh, County Tyrone, on 22 February 2023. The detective, who had investigated a number of high-profile murder cases, spent several weeks in intensive care. The attack, claimed by the dissident republican group the New IRA, occurred as Caldwell loaded footballs into his car with his son at a sports complex in Omagh, 70 miles (115km) west of Belfast. The shooting was condemned across the political spectrum in Northern Ireland, which has been sensitive to any resurgence in communal violence since the 1998 Good Friday agreement that ended most of the decades of violence that had afflicted the region. The man was arrested on Thursday and charged on Friday with attempted murder, directing terrorist activities and preparing terrorist acts, police said. A dozen people had previously been arrested and charged in connection with the attempted killing. “There is absolutely no tolerance for such attacks by the enemies of our peace,” said a joint statement by five Northern Irish political parties.