Man guilty of Manchester Airport attack on police officers

Sarah Spina-Matthews & Tom MullenBBC NewsPA MediaMohammed Fahir Amaaz’s actions had been captured in footage shared extensively onlineA man has been discovered responsible of attacking two feminine cops throughout a big violent disturbance at Manchester Airport.Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, 20, was charged with assaulting the Larger Manchester Cops throughout the fracas on 23 July final 12 months, with a video of the incident being extensively shared on social media.Following a three-week trial at Liverpool Crown Courtroom, Amaaz was convicted of assaulting PC Lydia Ward, inflicting precise bodily hurt, and the assault of emergency employee PC Ellie Cook dinner.The jury was unable to achieve verdicts on allegations that Amaaz and his brother, Muhammad Amaad, 26, assaulted PC Zachary Marsden inflicting precise bodily hurt.Amaaz was additionally discovered responsible of an earlier assault of a member of the general public, Abdulkareem Ismaeil, at a Starbucks cafe within the airport’s arrivals space earlier within the day.The courtroom heard how PC Zachary Marsden, PC Lydia Ward and PC Ellie Cook dinner had entered the airport automobile park’s pay station space following reviews of a male becoming Amaaz’s description headbutting a member of the general public.PA MediaAmaaz was discovered responsible following a trial at Liverpool Crown CourtProsecutors stated Amaaz resisted as he was grabbed from behind at a parking lot ticket machine, earlier than the violence broke out.CCTV footage of the officers being assaulted was performed to jurors on the brothers’ trial.The courtroom heard PC Ward suffered a damaged nostril within the incident, throughout which she remembered “falling on the ground and all the pieces went black” after a “actually forceful” blow to her face.PC Ward stated: “As I got here spherical, all I might really feel was blood pouring out of my nostril. I used to be simply pondering he has finished one thing to my nostril, face space, I did not know what has occurred.”I used to be terrified to be sincere. I used to be completely terrified. I had by no means skilled that stage of violence in the direction of me in my life.”‘Bloodied and bruised’Mike Peake, chairman of the Larger Manchester Police Federation, stated Amaaz’s conviction confirmed the “worst facet of police work our officers are confronted with”.”Cops in Manchester work in a tough, harmful, and dynamic world the place there isn’t any such factor as a routine incident. They deserve assist in that work from the general public and politicians,” he stated.”[Thirty-five] officers are assaulted in Larger Manchester Police each week. We’re bloodied and we’re bruised.”We’ve been supporting the officers involved within the incident at Manchester Airport final summer season because it occurred. And as a federation we’ll proceed to take action.”