Ditching efforts to prosecute two brothers who were filmed punching a policeman is ‘disgraceful’ and ‘completely wrong’, politicians said yesterday.
After two juries were unable to reach verdicts on whether Mohammed Fahir Amaaz and Muhammad Amaad had assaulted PC Zachary Marsden at Manchester Airport, there was fury when prosecutors said they would not seek a third trial.
Yet the officer could still end up in the dock himself over his attempted arrest of Amaaz, 21.
It comes after an investigation, costing up to £2million, was rocked by allegations of police brutality and ‘two-tier justice’.
PC Marsden, 26, and two of his colleagues approached Amaaz
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