DETECTIVES from the PSNI’s Terrorist Investigation Unit have charged a man over a dissident republican murder bid.
The 38-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder and causing an explosion likely to endanger life or cause serious injury to property.
He is further and belonging to or professing to belong to a proscribed organisation.
It is understood the charge is relation to a murder bid on a police officer in Castlederg in May 2008.
The Real IRA later claimed responsibility for putting the booby trap Semtex bomb under the car of off-duty policeman Ryan Crozier.
He sustained serious leg injuries when the device exploded under his car in the Spamount area.
Constable Crozier had just set off to go to work at Enniskillen PSNI station when the bomb detonated.
The suspect was one of three men arrested across North of Ireland on Wednesday by police investigating dissident republican terrorist activity.
He was detained in the Lisburn area and is due to appear at Strabane Magistrates’ Court on Thursday morning for a first remand hearing.
A 44-year-old man arrested in Pomeroy, Co Tyrone remains in custody at the serious crime suite at Musgrave PSNI station in Belfast.
A 37-year-old detained in Toomebridge has been released unconditionally.