Manchester Airport Attack: Mohammed Fahir Amaaz Jailed For 3.5 Years

A female police officer punched to the face during a fracas at Manchester Airport labelled her attacker “cowardly” as he was jailed. Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, 21, was jailed for three-and-a-half years at Liverpool Crown Court after he was convicted last year of assaulting Pc Lydia Ward causing her actual bodily harm during an attack in July 2024 that went viral on social media. The court had previously heard how Pc Ward suffered a broken nose as police bodycam footage showed her bloodied and sobbing, while Amaaz knocked Pc Cook to the ground with a series of elbows and punches during the attack. Ms Ward, now a police sergeant, entered the witness box at Liverpool Crown Court on Friday to read out her victim personal statement as Amaaz watched on videolink from prison where he has been on remand for the past 11 months. She said: “I want you to take a good look at me. Take away that I am a police officer. Look at me, standing here. “What do you see? I’ll tell you what you see. You see a female. A female who is 5ft2 and at the time of the incident I weighed no more than eight stone. “You are a male and you chose to attack me without a second thought. You chose to attack a female. You knocked me to the ground with one punch, with so much force you broke my nose. “What you did was cowardly.” She went on: “What angers me is that afterwards, when only part of the footage was out in the public, you played the victim. “You are not a victim. I am the one who was injured, not you. You had the whole world listening to you and you showed no remorse. Not one ounce. “You allowed the public to feel sorry for you. You made out like we had done something wrong when all we were doing was our job. “The things that have been written about me on social media are disgusting. Do I deserve to be spoken about in that way? I was made to feel like an idiot. “You could have stopped that by telling the truth. Instead, you continued with this narrative, even when the full footage was published.” Sgt Ward said she had been left with a small scar on her nose which would “forever remind me of what you did”. Amaaz was also found guilty at Liverpool Crown Court of assaulting Pc Ward’s Greater Manchester Police (GMP) colleague Pc Ellie Cook and an earlier assault on a member of the public at a nearby Starbucks café. Have you got a story? Email [email protected] Click here for more from Talk https://talk.tv If you need any help visit: https://talk.tv/helplines Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/talktv?sub_co...