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PA Media<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\nA police officer has told a jury she was “absolutely terrified” after she was floored with a punch to the face as she tried to arrest an assault suspect at Manchester Airport.<\/p>\n Greater Manchester PC Lydia Ward suffered a broken nose in the incident at the Terminal 2 car park pay station area on 23 July last year.<\/p>\n Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, 20, and his brother, Muhammad Amaad, 26, are accused of assault. Both men, from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, deny the allegations. <\/p>\n PC Ward told the trial she remembered “falling on the floor and everything went black” after a “really forceful” blow to her face. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n The court heard PC Ward and two colleagues had approached Mr Amaaz at a ticket machine after a report that a male fitting his description had headbutted a customer at Starbucks cafe in T2 arrivals.<\/p>\n The jury has heard Mr Amaaz allegedly resisted, and his brother, Mr Amaad is then said to have intervened as the prosecution claimed they inflicted a “high level of violence” on the officers.<\/p>\n PC Ward said: “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.”<\/p>\n She said she recalled that PC Zachary Marsden fell or was pushed towards some seats and that Mr Amaaz then kicked out at her colleague.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n PC Ward added: “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.”<\/p>\n “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.”<\/p>\n She told prosecutor Adam Birkby that the blow delivered was “really forceful”.<\/p>\n “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.”<\/p>\n “I was terrified to be honest. I was absolutely terrified. I had never experienced that level of violence towards me in my life.<\/p>\n “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.”<\/p>\n She said at one point she pressed her police radio emergency button to call for further assistance but the impact of the punch had knocked the battery out.<\/p>\n PC Ward told the court that other people in the pay station area were “shouting stuff” and “filming on their mobile phones”.<\/p>\n She said: “Nobody came to assist. I felt everyone in that room was against us. To be honest, I was terrified.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Rosemary Fernandes, representing Mr Amaaz, put it to PC Ward that her client was “taken by surprise” at the ticket machine and was “shocked”.<\/p>\n She said: “It is important you identify yourselves as police officers, isn’t it?”<\/p>\n PC Ward said: “I don’t think we had any time to do that. We didn’t have any time for rational discussion with this male as it turned violently quickly.”<\/p>\n Ms Fernandes said: “I put it to you that the defendant believed he was being attacked from behind and it all happened extremely fast.<\/p>\n “It is the defence’s case that he punched you in lawful self-defence on the basis that you were an assailant. Do you have any comment on that?”<\/p>\n PC Ward said: “I don’t know how he felt I was an assailant. He turned towards me and punched me in the face.<\/p>\n “He could see I was a police officer and he could see I was a female as well.”<\/p>\n Footage from a body-worn video camera was played to the jury which showed a bloodied and crying PC Ward being comforted by a colleague in the aftermath of the incident.<\/p>\n Mr Amaaz is alleged to have assaulted PC Marsden and PC Ward, causing them actual bodily harm.<\/p>\n He is also accused of the assault of PC Cook and the assault of Abdulkareem Ismaeil at Starbucks.<\/p>\n Mr Amaad is alleged to have assaulted PC Marsden, causing actual bodily harm.<\/p>\n Both men deny the allegations.<\/p>\n The trial continues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n‘Nobody helped’<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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