Body cam footage shows brothers ‘throwing punches’ at Manchester Airport police officers

Police body cam footage and CCTV allegedly shows three police officers being assaulted at Manchester Airport.

Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, 20, and his brother, Muhammad Amaad, 26, are alleged to have attacked the officers after Mr Amaaz allegedly headbutted a customer at a Starbucks in Terminal 2 on July 23 last year.

Today the jury at Liverpool Crown Court watched the footage from opposite angles which the prosecution says captures a ‘high level of violence’ used by the pair.

Minutes after the incident in Terminal 2, police approached both of the men at the pay station in the terminal’s car park.

Mr Amaaz resisted as officers tried to arrest him while Mr Amaad then intervened, the prosecution said.

Mr Amaaz threw 10 punches, including one to the face of PC Lydia Ward, which knocked her off the floor, junior counsel Adam Birkby said.

He also allegedly kicked firearms officer PC Zachary Marsden and hit PC Ellie Cook twice with his elbow.

He is said to have punched PC Marsden from behind and had a hold of him before PC Cook used her Taser.

Mr Amaad is alleged to have aimed six punches at firearms officer PC Marsden.

The footage shown to the jury allegedly shows the officers arrival at the terminal, their attempts to arrest the brothers and their exchanges.

It shows PC Ward appearing to say ‘Oi, you b*****d’ before she falls to the floor and screams.

PC Cook points her Taser at one of the defendants and can be heard saying: ‘Stay on the floor, stay on the floor whatever you do.’

‘Get back, get back,’ PC Ward then says.

Footage also shows PC Marsden appear to approach the defendant who is on the floor and kicks out at him.

Mr Birkby told the court: ‘Mr Amaaz, while prone, lifts his head towards the officers. PC Marsden kicks Mr Amaaz around the head area.

‘PC Marsden stamps his foot towards the crown of Mr Amaaz’s head area but doesn’t appear to connect with Mr Amaaz.’

PC Marsden said he approached the pay station area with the intention of taking ‘immediate control’ and escorting the suspect from the crowd to arrest him where he would have radio signal.

He said he placed his hands on Mr Amaaz’s left arm, but said he was ‘met with immediate resistance’ and that he felt the suspect ‘clench his fists’.

PC Marsden said a change of plan was needed so he handcuffed Mr Amaaz and said he then felt an ‘immense weight of pressure’ to his right side and felt his Glock 17 semi-automatic pistol move across his leg and around his body.

He told the court: ‘My initial fear is that someone is trying to get my gun. If someone gained my firearm it would pose an immediate lethal threat to anyone in the vicinity.

‘The risk of my firearm being taken from me did not stop until we gained control.

‘There was more than one person involved here – the aggressor I was trying to arrest and possibly an accomplice who was a much bigger physical build than me and much taller.’

He told the prosecution that he received ‘blows from all directions’ from the second man.

Mr Amaaz denies three counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm to the three police officers and one count of assault to Abdulkareem Ismaeil, the customer at Starbucks.

Mr Amaad denies one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm to PC Marsden.

The trial continues on Tuesday when PC Marsden will be cross-examined by the defence.

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