Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, 21, has been sentenced to three and a half years in jail for assaulting two female police officers and a member of the public at a Manchester airport Starbucks in July 2024. The incident, captured on widely shared mobile phone footage, left officers with injuries including a broken nose and concussion.
Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, 21, from Rochdale, has been jailed for three and a half years after assaulting two female police officers, PC Lydia Ward and PC Ellie Cook, and a Starbucks customer at Manchester Airport in July 2024. The officers sustained injuries, with Ward suffering a broken nose.
Muhammad Amaad (26) and Mohammed Fahir Amaaz (21) won't face a second retrial for allegedly assaulting a police officer at Manchester Airport in 2024 after two juries failed to reach verdicts.
A retrial jury in Liverpool Crown Court failed to reach verdicts on allegations that brothers Mohammed Fahir Amaaz (21) and Muhammad Amaad (26) assaulted Greater Manchester PC Zachary Marsden at Manchester Airport on 23 July 2024, leading to their discharge; the case is adjourned until 29 May for the Crown Prosecution Service to decide on a potential third trial.
Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, 21, and Muhammad Amaad, 26, are on trial at Liverpool Crown Court accused of assaulting firearms officers at Manchester Airport Terminal 2 car park in July 2024. Amaaz claims he acted in self-defence, saying he thought he would die when his head was pushed to the ground and believed an officer was aiming a gun at his brother.
