{"id":659724,"date":"2026-06-26T17:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T17:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/659724\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T17:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T17:42:10","slug":"man-who-punched-female-police-officers-at-manchester-airport-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/659724\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who punched female police officers at Manchester Airport jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last month, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it would not pursue a third trial against Amaaz and his brother, Muhammad Amaad, 26, who faced a single count of assaulting PC Marsden, and they were formally acquitted by the judge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The brothers had claimed they acted in lawful self-defence, or in defence of the other, during the brawl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In December 2024 the CPS announced no police officer would face criminal charges over the incident, which led to Greater Manchester Police (GMP) lifting the suspension of Marsden from all duties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">GMP chief constable Sir Stephen Watson said the force would fully co-operate with the IOPC investigation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our officers were responding quickly to precisely the sort of outrageous criminal behaviour that rightly offends the public,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In undertaking their duties, officers were met with resistance and violence; followed by online vilification, condemnation and adverse commentary from those who did not have the full facts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said 35 GMP officers are assaulted &#8220;every week&#8221; and added: &#8220;Such incidents can never be justified.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last month, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it would not pursue a third trial against Amaaz and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-659724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}