Detective who survived murder bid attends garden party with King Charles and Camilla

Detective Chief Superintendent John Caldwell met the King and Queen at a garden party at Hillsborough Castle, Co Down (Brian Lawless/PA)

A senior detective who survived a murder bid has attended a garden party in Co Down with Britain's King Charles III and Queen Camilla.

The event was the first time PSNI Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell has appeared in public since the attack attributed to dissident republicans earlier this year.