Manchester Airport Brothers Cleared of Assaulting Armed Officer After Two Juries Deadlock – While PC Marsden Still Faces Probe

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Two brothers whose violent arrest at Manchester Airport went viral after bystanders filmed it on their phones will not face a third trial for assaulting an armed policeman. The Mail has the story:

There was outrage at scenes of PC Zachary Marsden kicking a prone Asian man in the head in July 2024.

Protesters took to the streets holding ‘Black Lives Matter’ placards and calling for the police to be “defunded”.

But days later there was a fierce backlash when leaked CCTV showed the violence to which PC Marsden and two female colleagues had been subjected to just seconds earlier.

CCTV shows Amaaz swinging a punch at Manchester Airport – hitting PC Lydia Ward in the nose

It took 150 days for prosecutors to announce that PC Marsden would not be charged with any offence.

Instead the brothers – the recipient of the kick, university drop-out Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, now 21, and former KFC Assistant Manager Muhammad Amaad, 26, both from Rochdale – were charged with assaulting the three officers.

A trial last year saw horrifying footage of the brutal violence meted out by Amaaz to PC Lydia Ward – who suffered a broken nose – and armed colleague PC Ellie Cook.

Unarmed PC Lydia Ward – whose nose was broken in the frenzy of violence

But while Amaaz was convicted of causing actual bodily harm to PC Ward and assaulting PC Cook, jurors could not reach verdicts on whether the brothers had both assaulted PC Marsden.

The outcome sparked consternation, with Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police Sir Stephen Watson praising his officers for putting themselves in “harm’s way” to tackle “outrageous criminal behaviour”.

After a second jury at Liverpool Crown Court last week failed to reach verdicts, prosecutors today told a judge that they would not be seeking a third trial, and both brothers were formally found not guilty of assaulting PC Marsden. …

Older brother Amaad grinned and was hugged by supporters as he left the courtroom.

Afterwards the brothers’ lawyer accused PC Marsden of “taking a ‘rugby style’ kick” at Amaaz’s head and called for him to be placed on trial. …

Earlier prosecutor Paul Greaney KC told the brief hearing that after consideration “at the highest level” the CPS had decided it could not “lawfully” seek a third trial of either brother.

Mr Greaney said that while it was a “serious” case which had attracted “a great deal of public attention”, it could not pass the legal test of being one of “extreme gravity” justifying an exception being made.

He therefore formally offered no evidence on the charges of assaulting PC Marsden against either brother and both were therefore found not guilty. …

The court heard lawyers for Amaad would be seeking an order for defence costs.

It can now be revealed that the brothers’ high-powered legal team made repeated efforts to stop key evidence being shown to the jury in the original trial. …

Lawyers for the brothers had argued that 2025 trial should be stopped on the grounds of “vile” racist “vitriol” on social media influencing the jury.

They also argued that PC Marsden was a “bad apple” and that his actions showed “red mist” had descended, likening him to “RoboCop”. …

Six members of the family – including older brother Abid – are current or former officers with Greater Manchester Police.

Amaad himself twice applied unsuccessfully to join the force – including a 999 dispatch role just three months before the airport incident. …

While today’s announcement marks the end of the lengthy legal process facing the brothers, PC Marsden could still face criminal charges himself.

He remains under investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct which could still refer him back to the Crown Prosecution Service.

A second male Greater Manchester Police officer who along with PC Marsden confronted bystanders filming the brawl also remains under investigation.

The same officer is also understood to have been placed under criminal investigation by the IOPC over the leaking of CCTV of the altercation to the Manchester Evening News.

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JXB
JXB
4 months ago

The retrial should have been moved to a different area outside “the community”.

Rusty123
Rusty123
4 months ago

This is not justice, its telling them if tou are muslim, you can do what you like, Karma will get these thugs, hard I hope

RTSC
RTSC
4 months ago

A travesty ….

Grim Ace
Grim Ace
4 months ago

We can see this- Muslims protecting Muslims regardless of their crime. Its in their evil book. They always work together so they can keep undermining us.
I’d like to know how many of rhe jury were Muslims. I bet i can take a good guess.
The coming civil war will pay back all the debts owed.
There won’t be many prisoners.
Restore Britain
Remigration. Repatriation. Deportation. By force if necessary. I, and millions like me will help.

Myra
Myra
4 months ago

When reading this article it seems one of the accused was found guilty of assaulting the female police officer (Ward), but the trial concerning assaut on the other officer (Marsden) collapsed?
So has one of them at least been sentenced?

pjar
pjar
4 months ago
Reply to  Myra

Sentencing next month… 26th, I think?

sskinner
sskinner
4 months ago

Following the Islamic London Bridge attack Sadiq Khan warned of the dangers of White Supremecy or something similar. 
Following the Islamist attacks on the Jewish London Ambulances Master Khan responded with how afraid Muslims feel.
Following the Golders Green attack on Jewish people we are told this is because of the far right.
Just in relation to UK citizens at the hands of Islam we have had:

Pan Am Flt 103 / Lockerbie
Glasgow Airport suicide attack
7/7 suicide attack
Manchester Arena suicide attack
Sir David Ames Murder
Salmon Rushdie death sentance and attack
London Bridge suicide attack
Borough Market suicide attack
Westminster Bridge suicide attack
Reading terrorist attack
Tunisia holiday resort terrorst attack
David Haines murder
James Foley murder
Kris Donald murder
Rhiannon Whyte.
Rochdale Rape Gangs 
Rotherham Rape Gangs 
Telford Rape Gangs 
Amie Grey murder
Southport murders
Terence Carney murder
Manchester Synagogue terrorist attack and murders
Gurvinder Johal murder
Wayne Broadhurst murder
Pro Palestine/Hamas demonstrations following Oct 7th

The response? The introduction of Islamophobic Laws

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/F8moLAvuY-M
This is urgent Business – Christopher Hitchens

“It is always the simplest ideas that lead to the greatest consequences. My idea, in it’s entirety is that if vile people unite and constitute… Read more »

Hester
Hester
4 months ago

no doubt it was a “sympathetic” culturally appropriate jury

NeilofWatford
NeilofWatford
4 months ago

Liverpool juries.
When I worked at BAe, some ‘peace’ activists cut through the fence and did £5 million damage to a Hawk aircraft.
The Liverpool jury found them not guilty and they walked away.

Grim Ace
Grim Ace
4 months ago
Reply to  NeilofWatford

Liverpool. Communist city inhabited with generally workshy, communist minded, welfare leeches.

Western Firebrand
Western Firebrand
4 months ago

As we’re no nearer to having the truth revealed in open court, the video evidence tends to a racially-aggravated crime committed by these men against an airline passenger and then against the police.

Two trials have collapsed because it appears that jurors were either intimated or, being of the same religion as the accused, would neither recuse themselves nor find their “brothers” guilty, despite the evidence. Effectively the English legal system yields to Sharia law. There should be a contempt of court case is that is the case.

Doubtless these low-lifes will be awarded a degree of compensation to set them up for life.

GunnerBill
GunnerBill
4 months ago

Women in front line policing – utterly pointless.

Corky Ringspot
Corky Ringspot
4 months ago
Reply to  GunnerBill

The photo of the WPC crying after being punched doesn’t inspire confidence, does it. Visible proof of the foolishness of ideological blindness to reality.

psychedelia smith
psychedelia smith
4 months ago

The police should finish this off in their spare time. Permanently.

Boomer Bloke
Boomer Bloke
4 months ago

We’re done.

Mrs.Croc
Mrs.Croc
4 months ago

I’m heartily sick of this now. If something doesn’t happen to correct the justice system soon, people will just give up and enact their own law.
How long are people supposed to accept that whites are always wrong and are not allowed access to the same consideration under the human rights act as the scum who roll up on our shores and after attacking us, then expect us to fund their new life.
The Labour Party can pass all the laws it likes. If the white population feel their is nothing left to lose and they are going to get beaten up and raped or killed anyway, deploying the police and the forces will make not one jot of difference.

Mogwai
Mogwai
4 months ago
Reply to  Mrs.Croc

When it comes to the justice system I don’t think it’s always the case that non-whites are favoured and treated more leniently. There seems to be a lot of injustice when it comes to the youth courts, and we can’t assume the teenagers are always from an ethnic minority just because it fits a narrative, though it doesn’t help they get to hide behind anonymity due to being minors.
I don’t know what’s going on with teenage boys but they’re literally getting away with rape. They may as well have just shoplifted for all the punishment they seem to get for ruining someone’s life;

”Three teenage boys convicted of the rape and serious sexual assault of girls as young as 14 in England were given fines of £26 (€30) each and rehabilitation orders, according to information uncovered by the Guardian newspaper.
The three separate cases all took place over the past year in north-east England. They were tried under youth court rules that deal with suspects aged 17 or under and place a greater emphasis on rehabilitation than adult courts.
One justice group said the fine of £26 for rape was less than a parking fine and derisory. In one… Read more »

Mogwai
Mogwai
4 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Don’t worry, though. I’m sure all culprits are of the non-white variety. Keep clinging on to your bias and narrow world view for dear life 😏;

”Violent pornography and access to smartphones are turning children into sex abusers – with more than 6,800 rapes committed by youngsters aged ten to 17 in a year, a report reveals.
In excess of half of all child sexual offences are now committed by other youngsters, the landmark study into the scale of offending across the country has concluded.

Officers have charted an explosion in sexual crimes being committed by teenagers.
As well as the 6,813 rapes in 2022, there were 8,020 sex attacks plus 15,534 cases of indecent images of a child relating to the sharing of naked pictures.
Yesterday the national police lead in tackling child abuse warned that sexual violence has become ‘normalised behaviour’ for some schoolchildren after years of watching hardcore pornography on their phones.
Figures show that 52 per cent of a total of 106,984 child sexual abuse offences reported to 42 police forces in England and Wales in 2022 were carried out by fellow youngsters in what officers called ‘a growing and concerning trend’.”

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-12944949/Children-committing-18-rapes-DAY-15-000-rapes-sex-attacks-year-shocking-report-finds-police-warn-sexual-violence-normalised-online-

Jack the dog
Jack the dog
4 months ago
Reply to  Mrs.Croc

Bring it on.

These people are supposed to enact justice on our behalf – IMO in such egregious cases we would be wirhin our rights to administer a goid kicking.

Mogwai
Mogwai
4 months ago
Reply to  Jack the dog

“Calm down, dear.”

Grim Ace
Grim Ace
4 months ago
Reply to  Mrs.Croc

Indeed. That time is getting closer. See Dr David Betz videos about the coming civil war (whixh has already started – kicked off by the Muhamamdans killing and raping our people).
Facts are uncomfortable, aren’t they

Matt Dalby
Matt Dalby
4 months ago

There’s no way a university drop out and former deputy KFC manager could afford a high powered legal team. Did the local mosque have a whip round or did a “human rights” charity pay for them?

EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
4 months ago

Two tier?

so what is the sentence on the guy already found guilty. Who (name) “at the highest level” decided not to retry the case. What are the names of the brothers’ legal team.

Can someone explain how a jury could possibly not come to a quick decision.

Lastly, do we know where Hermer and Starmer are celebrating this outcome. ,

Heretic
Heretic
4 months ago
Reply to  EppingBlogger

Imran Khan KC is the name to remember: Yet Another Pakistani Muslim born in Pakistan who became famous for the Stephen Lawrence case and specialises in immigration cases, and getting vicious criminals like these two hideous thugs off lightly.

Grim Ace
Grim Ace
4 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

Civil war will come to the yookay.

pjar
pjar
4 months ago
Reply to  Grim Ace

I’m reminded of the words of Norm MacDonald… inevitably, something will trigger a backlash.

Just a short time ago the security service recovered nearly three tons of Ammonium Nitrate in properties around London… that’s a hell of a bang, and was clearly destined for something.

I recall too, the words of the IRA terrorist who told the police: “You have to be lucky all the time, we just have to be lucky once”.

Dinger64
Dinger64
4 months ago
Reply to  EppingBlogger

I really think that the jury was intimidated by these two scumsuckers
I believe both jury’s were given the dead eye by the suspects, each and every one of them “we know what you look like!” sort of eye.
I wonder if they would have arrived at the same verdict if the jury had been obscured behind screens?! Personally, in cases of violent criminals, I think all jurors identities should be kept secret for there own safety and to be able to give a fair verdict without feeling intimidated

Heretic
Heretic
4 months ago
Reply to  Dinger64

Either intimidated or paid off…

Mogwai
Mogwai
4 months ago
Reply to  Dinger64

I can’t get over the size of his conk!😵👃
Also, if you already have a son called Mohammed, why would you then call your second son Mohammed, too?🤔

Western Firebrand
Western Firebrand
4 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

…Or Mohammed Two?

Grim Ace
Grim Ace
4 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Because you are a muhammadan zealot and very low IQ

AbsolutelyNot
AbsolutelyNot
4 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Two brain cells, one for each Mohammed.

Judy Watson
Judy Watson
4 months ago
Reply to  Dinger64

After viewing the footage I did wonder if the jurors had been ‘got at’

Grim Ace
Grim Ace
4 months ago
Reply to  Dinger64

Excellent idea

merlin1302
merlin1302
4 months ago
Reply to  Dinger64

That makes sense, lot of ‘ clans’ in the mooselim cohort!!

Jack the dog
Jack the dog
4 months ago
Reply to  EppingBlogger

A jury including Pakistanis failed to reach a unanimous verdict why? Because Pakistan values, not English values.

Grim Ace
Grim Ace
4 months ago
Reply to  EppingBlogger

The CPS has a high proportion of Muhammadan looking lawyers nowadays. I suspect I may be able to guess which lawyers nade this decision.
The trial should have been moved to another part of rhe UK.
Or perhaps jury members felt frightened to come to a guilty verdict given the fact that Muhammadans have a habit of getting violent if they don’t get what they want?

Pembroke
Pembroke
4 months ago
Reply to  EppingBlogger

Probably not retrying because of double jeopardy (is it a thing in UK courts?), you’ll notice that the two trials were not for the same thing. Would it be the case that to try them again would require a different charge?

What I don’t get, though, is ‘armed police,’ why are they not being shot? Problem solved, or are our armed officers too cowed now that to shoot is to invite prosecution so they are rendered ineffective by the courts and may just as well not be there.

Heretic
Heretic
4 months ago

Is this a Globalist trick to stir up public support for abolishing Trial by Jury?

Heretic
Heretic
4 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

It’s important to remember that all this violence and massive waste of British Taxpayer money on legal aid was CAUSED BY THE PAKISTANI MOTHER of these thugs. She got into a quarrel with a fellow passenger on her flight from PAKISTAN, and when her sons arrived to pick her up at the airport, she whined to them and accused the fellow passenger of heaven-knows-what-lies, urging them to assault the passenger without hesitation.

The whole thing was HER FAULT, but she’s allowed to sneak around hiding in the background. In the video footage, she can be seen getting in everyone’s way like a lump of lard.

CircusSpot
CircusSpot
4 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

Not just a lump of lard but pushing and pulling the police officers. She should have been charged as well.

Heretic
Heretic
4 months ago
Reply to  CircusSpot

Absolutely!

Grim Ace
Grim Ace
4 months ago
Reply to  CircusSpot

This whole incident demonstrates the general low IQ-ness. You can also see it in their eyes. Thick. Low Impulse Control – lash out at any ‘slight’
There are decades worth of politicians who should pay dearly for allowing these retards i to our beautiful land.

AbsolutelyNot
AbsolutelyNot
4 months ago
Reply to  Grim Ace

That’s what I’m actually counting on, that these idiots will someday soon think “it is time” and do something so very stupid…

Robert Liddell
Robert Liddell
3 months ago
Reply to  Grim Ace

You can certainly see it in their haircuts

Jack the dog
Jack the dog
4 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

Or else public support for deporting back to s***holistan?

Asking for a friend.

Heretic
Heretic
4 months ago
Reply to  Jack the dog

Yes, I’ve been racking my brains trying to think of all the ways in which importing half of Pakistan has improved life for the Ethnic Europeans of the British Isles… … … still racking… nothing yet… maybe tomorrow?

Jack the dog
Jack the dog
4 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

For the ethnic english it has been a disaster.

We have to start getting serious about kicking out as many as possible and ensuring english values – christianity, getting pissed, loving dogs more than women, LBW etc – get priority over sharia shit.

Grim Ace
Grim Ace
4 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

No, mate, it’s a Mulsim trick to achieve the sane result

pjar
pjar
4 months ago
Reply to  Grim Ace

Is that a typo, there?

pjar
pjar
4 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

Yes, I too wondered this… and then I thought about the consequences of delivering us into the hands of a clearly politically biased judiciary, and didn’t sleep terribly well.

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