A man who punched a female police officer at Manchester Airport has been jailed.

A man has been jailed for three-and-a-half years for punching two female police officers as they tried to arrest him after headbutting a man in a Starbucks cafe at Manchester Airport.

Mohammed Fahir Amaz, 21, from Rochdale, pleaded guilty at Liverpool Crown Court in July 2024 to assaulting PC Lydia Ward, PC Ellie Cook and a Starbucks customer at the airport.

The sentencing was delayed for a retrial where Amaaz was also charged with assaulting a male police officer, but the jury was still deadlocked and called off.

“What you did was cowardly,” Ward, whose nose was broken in the attack, said in a statement read to the court earlier.

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