Man jailed after assaulting two female officers and member of public at Manchester Airport | UK | News

A man who attacked two female police officers who tried to arrest him for headbutting a man in a Starbucks cafe at Manchester Airport has been jailed. Mohammed Fahir Amaaz was sentenced today after being found guilty of assaulting a member of the public and two female officers during the incident at Manchester Airport on 23 July 2024.

The 21-year-old man, from Rochdale, was jailed at Liverpool Crown Court for three-and-a-half years. He was convicted of assaulting a person by beating in July 2025; Assaulting PC Ward, causing him actual bodily harm; and assaulting emergency worker PC Cook by beating.

During his sentencing hearing, one of the female officers he attacked described the attack as “cowardly”.

The court previously heard that PC Ward suffered a broken nose, was seen bloodied and sobbing in police body camera footage, 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 her victim’s personal statement as she watched a video link from the prison where Amaaz has been held for the past 11 months.

He said: “I want you to take a good look at me. Remember 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 woman. A woman who is six feet tall and I weighed no more than eight stone at the time of the incident.

“You are a man and you chose to attack me without thinking. You chose to attack a woman. You knocked me to the ground with one punch, breaking my nose with so much force.”

“What you did was cowardly.”