Senior officer restates belief that New IRA shot off-duty detective in Omagh

Assistant Chief Constable Mark McEwan has said he believes the New IRA carried out an attack on an off-duty police officer (Brian Lawless/PA)

A senior police officer has repeated his belief that the dissident republican New IRA carried out a gun attack on an off-duty detective in Northern Ireland.

Assistant Chief Constable Mark McEwan made the remarks to the Policing Board after being questioned over the possibility of loyalist involvement in the attack on Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell.