2024 Manchester Airport brawl

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On 23 July 2024, a brawl broke out at Manchester Airport in England. The fight involved two brothers, Mohammed Fahir Amaaz and Muhammad Amaad, and three Greater Manchester Police officers, whom the brothers allegedly assaulted. The brothers claimed they were acting in self-defence, however CCTV which is now available disproves this. Amaaz was convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm against PC Lydia Ward, assault of an emergency worker by beating PC Ellie Cook, as well as assault by beating Abdulkareem Ismaeil, a member of the public, in an earlier incident at the airport, by a jury at Liverpool Crown Court in 2025. In 2026, he was sentenced to three and a half years in prison. Amaad was not convicted of any offence after a trial ending 30 July 2025, and a retrial ending 20 May 2026. Police attended the airport's car park following reports of an altercation between the brothers and another man. Acting on a description of the alleged perpetrators, officers attempted to handcuff...

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