Ex-cop charged with attempted murder of wife, children

An ex-policeman was remanded to prison yesterday when he was charged two years after he allegedly chopped his wife and her children.

Shawn Fordyce ap-peared before Magis-trate Susanna Lovell at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court yesterday where he was slapped with the indictable charge of attempted murder.

The specifics of the charge stated that on August 1, 2013, Fordyce, armed with a cutlass dealt several chops to his wife,