THIS is the moment a female cop was left crying and bloodied after her nose was broken during a brawl at Manchester Airport.
Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, 20, and Muhammad Amaad, 26, allegedly left PC Lydia Ward with a broken nose on July 23 last year.
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CPSPC Lydia Ward was struck in the face[/caption]
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She was among three cops who had been scrambled to arrest the pair following an earlier fight at a Starbucks cafe within the airport.
Body-worn footage was shown to a jury at Liverpool Crown Court on Thursday of the female officer in the moments after the alleged brawl.
PC Ward, whose face was covered in blood, was in tears and screaming in pain as colleagues tried to tend to her injuries.
Officers could be heard consoling the distressed cop, who had broken her nose after being floored by a punch.
She today described how she was “absolutely terrified” after and had “never experienced” such violence towards her.
PC Ward, a former special constable with Lancashire Police who joined Greater Manchester Police in 2018, said: “Never in my whole time in the police service had that level of violence been used on me before. It felt really hard.
“As I came round, all I could feel was blood pouring out of my nose. I was just thinking he has done something to my nose, face area, I didn’t know what has happened.”
She added: “I was terrified to be honest. I was absolutely terrified. I had never experienced that level of violence towards me in my life.
“I didn’t know who was going to come up at me next. I was scared of going after this male again and being punched in the face again.”
PC Ward, who was unarmed, was with two armed colleagues when they approached Amaaz and Amaad at a ticket machine.
It came after a report that a male fitting his description had allegedly headbutted a customer at Starbucks cafe in the airport’s Terminal 2 arrivals hall.
But Amaaz initially resisted arrest, before his brother intervened and a brawl broke out, the court has heard.
PC Ward said the intention had been to arrest the suspect and remove him from the crowded area around the ticket machine.
However, he began to “tense up and resist” when she and colleagues PC Zachary Marsden and PC Ellie Cook took hold of him.
The officer told the court: “Things escalated very quickly. It just went from nought to a hundred.
“My attention was mainly on Amaaz. However, I was aware the larger male, Amaad, had come over and there was some sort of fracas between him and PC Marsden and PC Cook and they were trying to get him away so they could affect the arrest.
“I was trying to keep hold of Mr Amaaz’s arm and get it behind his back so I could get some cuffs on him.”
She described how PC Marsden “fell or was pushed” before Amaaz kicked out at one of her colleagues.
PC Ward added: “The man in blue started booting him, kicking him really hard, and I was trying to pull him off.
“I tried to grab him off so he could stop kicking PC Marsden. All I remember then is that he turned and he punched me straight in the face.
“I can’t really remember where it landed but I know where my injuries were. I remember falling on the floor and everything went black.”
She described the punch as “really forceful”.
Amaaz is alleged to have assaulted Pc Marsden and Pc Ward, causing them actual bodily harm.
He is also accused of the assault of PC Cook and the earlier Starbucks assault of Abdulkareem Ismaeil.
Amaad is alleged to have assaulted Pc Marsden, causing actual bodily harm.
Both men, from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, deny the allegations.
PAHuman Rights lawyer Aamer Anwar (centre) arrives with Mohammed Fahir Amaaz (left) and Muhammed Amaad (right) at Liverpool Crown Court[/caption] Published: [#item_custom_pubDate]
