The policewoman left bloodied and sobbing from a broken nose after an attempted arrest at Manchester Airport turned violent has today branded her attacker a ‘coward’.
As university dropout Mohammed Fahir Amaaz was jailed for three and a half years, Lydia Ward accused him of showing ‘not one ounce’ of remorse for using her ‘as a punch bag’.
Delivering her powerful statement directly to the 21-year-old, the officer – now promoted to sergeant – told him: ‘You changed my face.’
She criticised Amaaz for having ‘played the victim’ when misleading footage of the aftermath of the incident filmed by onlookers went viral and
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