‘Cowardly’ airport thug jailed for officer attacks

A FEMALE police officer punched to the face during a fracas at Manchester Airport labelled her attacker “cowardly” as he was jailed.

- KIM PILLING AND ELEANOR BARLOW

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.

Amaaz was also found guilty of assaulting PC Ward’s Greater Manchester Police colleague PC Ellie Cook and an earlier assault on a member of the public at a nearby Starbucks café.

The court had previously heard how PC Ward suffered a broken nose as police bodycam footage showed her bloodied and sobbing, while Amaaz also knocked PC Ellie Cook to the ground with a series of elbows and punches during the attack.