Mohammed Fahir Amaaz caught on CCTV at Manchester Airport.<\/p>\n
This conviction has been given very little coverage by the mainstream media.<\/p>\n
The media had previously echoed the accuser\u2019s claim that police had been \u201cracist\u201d in their handling of the incident Manchester Airport. Implying that they might have been warranted.<\/p>\n
Now it transpires that those involved had simply used accusations of \u201cracism\u201d to conceal their thuggish behaviour. Just as recently occurred in the Henry Nowak case<\/a>.<\/p>\n Certainly there is a lesson in this for both the police and the media.<\/p>\n Will the police learn?<\/p>\n Maybe, but it will take time.<\/p>\n Will the media learn?<\/p>\n We suspect not because they, or at least the media bosses are complicit in events like this. That’s why this final ruling has been given such limited coverage. In contrast to the initial media outcry over the incident itself, what really happened is starting to emerge.<\/p>\n That’s what happens with the truth and the media. What really happened takes time to reveal itself and when it does the media is invariably looking elsewhere. Ed.<\/p>\n A man has been sentenced to three and a half years in jail after being convicted of assaulting two female police officers and a member of the public at a Starbucks in Manchester<\/a> airport.<\/p>\n Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, 21, from Rochdale, was convicted<\/a> of common assault and two counts of actual bodily harm, after a four-week trial at Liverpool crown court last year.<\/p>\n Mobile phone footage of the brawl, which took place in July 2024, was shared widely on social media following the incident. It showed a young Asian man kicked in the face on the floor by a male police officer, who then appeared to stamp towards his head.<\/p>\n Days later, a CCTV clip, leaked to the media, showed an altercation beforehand with three police officers, who sustained injuries including concussion, a broken nose and bruising and swelling.<\/p>\n Footage played to the jury showed Amaaz head-butting a member of the public, and throwing 10 punches, two elbow strikes and one kick at the responding police officers, who included PC Lydia Ward and PC Ellie Cook.<\/p>\n He and his fellow defendant, his brother, Muhammad Amaad, 26, from Rochdale, had claimed they acted in lawful self-defence, or defence of each other, against the male police officer, PC Zachary Marsden.<\/p>\nMan jailed for assault on police officers and customer at Manchester airport<\/strong><\/h1>\n
Hannah Al-Othmann \u2013 The Guardian June 26, 2026<\/strong><\/h2>\n