Manchester Airport trial jurors told stamp and kick a ‘distraction’

Mr Greaney said the claims by Mr Amaaz that he did not realise that PC Ward and PC Cook were women when he struck them was a “barefaced lie”.

PC Ward suffered a broken nose as she was floored by a punch to the face and PC Cook was also knocked to the ground by a number of elbows and punches, the court has heard.

Mr Greaney told jurors: “Of course we know you will make fair allowance for the fast-moving and dynamic events but the suggestion he didn’t know they were women cannot exist in the world we inhabit.”

Mr Greaney said Mr Amaad had “no legitimate reason to seek to prevent the officers from carrying out their duty particularly in the circumstances where it must have been obvious his brother was resisting arrest”.

His claims that he thought his brother was being choked by PC Marsden was “demonstrably untrue”, said the prosecutor.

Mr Greaney said the officers were doing what the law entitled them to do in their plan to seek to move Mr Amaaz from the pay station area and then tell him outside he was under arrest.

He said: “What was going through their minds is we have a duty to perform and we are going to perform it.

“Conversely, what was going through the mind of the first defendant, Amaaz, was that he plainly knew that the people taking hold of him were police officers. He had just attacked a man in public in an international airport.

“What he did think they were there for?”