Man jailed after punching female police officers at Manchester Airport
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A man who used a "high level of violence" in a confrontation at Manchester Airport - breaking one female police officer's nose - has been jailed for three-and-a-half years. Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, 21, struck out after police were called to respond to an incident in Terminal 2 on 23 July 2024. As he resisted arrest, for an earlier assault on a member of the public, he landed a number of punches on two female officers before he was eventually felled by a Taser. PC Lydia Ward, who had her nose broken by Amaaz, told the court in a victim impact statement she had "never seen anyone so violent" and had "never been so scared". PC Ellie Cook, who Amaaz punched her a number of times, told the court she had been "broken" following the incident. Amaaz, from Rochdale, was handed 42 months for assaulting the two officers and a member of the public, after a jury at Liverpool Crown Court found him guilty following a trial in July 2025. Jailing him, Judge Flewitt criticised the "total lack of remo
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