Manchester Airport trial: Thug who fought police guilty of assault after blaming cops

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A thug who used a “high level of violence” as he brawled with police at Manchester Airport has been found guilty of assaulting two female officers.

Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, 20, was convicted of attacking PC Lydia Ward and PC Ellie Cook in the car park pay station at Terminal 2 on July 23 last year.

He was also found guilty of headbutting holidaymaker Abdulkareem Ismaeil in a nearby Starbucks, after accusing his victim of racially abusing his mother on an incoming flight.

Jurors at Liverpool Crown Court could not reach verdicts on either Amaaz or his elder brother Muhammed Amaad, 26, for assault causing actual bodily harm on PC Zachary Marsden.
The Crown Prosecution Service will now seek a retrial of both brothers. Amaaz was remanded in custody by Judge Neil Flewitt KC ahead of a bail hearing tomorrow.

The trial heard trouble started after armed officers went to arrest Amaaz following the Starbucks assault. Jurors were shown CCTV footage of Amaaz headbutting and punching Mr Ismaeil in front of a number of children.

The court was also shown video of the two brothers fighting with the officers - footage which went viral online at the time of the incident.
That footage also showed firearms officer Zachary Marsden appearing to kick Amaaz in the face and stamp on his head.

The court heard the brothers had travelled to the airport with their young nephew to collect their mother who was due to arrive back on a flight from Qatar.
Paul Greaney KC said officers, PC Marsden and PC Ellie Cook, who were both armed, and PC Lydia Ward, were already in the airport and traced the brothers to the car park payment area.

All three officers told the court they had acted in a “professional” manner throughout, saying claims by the defence that they had been “out of control” were “false”.

Neither brother has been in trouble with the police before, and six members of the family, including older brother Abid, are current or former officers with Greater Manchester Police.

Amaad himself twice applied unsuccessfully to join the force, including a 999 dispatch role just three months before the airport incident. Amaaz has begun studying sport marketing and management at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Giving evidence, PC Marsden told jurors that based on the violence of the headbutt they decided to get “immediate control” of the teenager and take him in for questioning.

Footage shown to the jury from multiple angles, including police bodycams, showed Amaaz resisted arrest before his brother then grappled with PC Marsden.