Jordan’s Paralympic committee said yesterday it has withdrawn three members from a pre-Games training camp in Northern Ireland over charges of sex offences.

“The three athletes charged with a variety of offences in Northern Ireland will not be competing at the London 2012 Paralympic Games and will return home to Amman,” the committee said.

Two wheelchair-using power-lifters and their trainer appeared at Coleraine Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday facing charges including sexual assault and voyeurism.

The three, released Wednesday on combined bail and sureties of €6,970 each.

A senior Jordanian government official has denied reports that Jordan’s King Abdullah II had personally intervened in the case, although he said the monarch was “concerned” by the allegations.

The men were arrested on Monday in the town of Antrim, northwest of Belfast, after three women lodged complaints.

Power lifter Omar Sami Qaradhi, 31, faces three charges of sexual assault, two against a child, and one of voyeurism after allegedly entering a women’s changing room at the team’s training centre at the Antrim Forum leisure center.

Police said he was identified by a 14-year-old girl who claimed that she posed for photos with him before he groped her between the legs in Antrim town centre.