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| Man guilty of Manchester Airport attack on police officers | Man guilty of Manchester Airport attack on police officers |
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| Mohammed Fahir Amaaz's actions were captured in footage shared widely online | Mohammed Fahir Amaaz's actions were captured in footage shared widely online |
| A man has been found guilty of attacking two female police officers during a large violent disturbance at Manchester Airport. | A man has been found guilty of attacking two female police officers during a large violent disturbance at Manchester Airport. |
| Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, 20, was charged with assaulting the Greater Manchester Police officers during the fracas on 23 July last year, with a video of the incident being widely shared on social media. | Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, 20, was charged with assaulting the Greater Manchester Police officers during the fracas on 23 July last year, with a video of the incident being widely shared on social media. |
| Following a three-week trial at Liverpool Crown Court, Amaaz was convicted of assaulting PC Lydia Ward, causing actual bodily harm, and the assault of emergency worker PC Ellie Cook. | Following a three-week trial at Liverpool Crown Court, Amaaz was convicted of assaulting PC Lydia Ward, causing actual bodily harm, and the assault of emergency worker PC Ellie Cook. |
| The jury was unable to reach verdicts on allegations that Amaaz and his brother, Muhammad Amaad, 26, assaulted PC Zachary Marsden causing actual bodily harm. | |
| Amaaz was also found guilty of an earlier assault of a member of the public, Abdulkareem Ismaeil, at a Starbucks cafe in the airport's arrivals area earlier in the day. | Amaaz was also found guilty of an earlier assault of a member of the public, Abdulkareem Ismaeil, at a Starbucks cafe in the airport's arrivals area earlier in the day. |
| The court heard how PC Zachary Marsden, PC Lydia Ward and PC Ellie Cook had entered the airport car park's pay station area following reports of a male fitting Amaaz's description headbutting a member of the public. | The court heard how PC Zachary Marsden, PC Lydia Ward and PC Ellie Cook had entered the airport car park's pay station area following reports of a male fitting Amaaz's description headbutting a member of the public. |
| Amaaz was found guilty following a trial at Liverpool Crown Court | |
| Prosecutors said Amaaz resisted as he was grabbed from behind at a car park ticket machine, before the violence broke out. | Prosecutors said Amaaz resisted as he was grabbed from behind at a car park ticket machine, before the violence broke out. |
| CCTV footage of the officers being assaulted was played to jurors at the brothers' trial. | |
| The court heard PC Ward suffered a broken nose in the incident, during which she remembered "falling on the floor and everything went black" after a "really forceful" blow to her face. | |
| PC Ward said: "As I came round, all I could feel was blood pouring out of my nose. I was just thinking he has done something to my nose, face area, I didn't know what has happened. | |
| "I was terrified to be honest. I was absolutely terrified. I had never experienced that level of violence towards me in my life." | |
| 'Bloodied and bruised' | |
| Mike Peake, chairman of the Greater Manchester Police Federation, said Amaaz's conviction showed the "worst side of police work our officers are faced with". | |
| "Police officers in Manchester work in a difficult, dangerous, and dynamic world where there is no such thing as a routine incident. They deserve support in that work from the public and politicians," he said. | |
| "[Thirty-five] officers are assaulted in Greater Manchester Police every week. We are bloodied and we are bruised. | |
| "We have been supporting the officers concerned in the incident at Manchester Airport last summer since it occurred. And as a federation we will continue to do so." |