Brothers who brawled with police officers in Manchester Airport were handed £113k in taxpayer-funded legal aid

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Brothers who brawled with police officers in Manchester Airport were handed £113k in taxpayer-funded legal aid.

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The two brothers embroiled in a brawl with police officers at Manchester Airport were handed £113,000 in taxpayer-funded legal aid.Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, 21, from Rochdale, and his older brother Muhammad Amaad, 26, received the publicly funded payments across two trials at Liverpool Crown Court stemming from the incident in July 2024.Footage of the chaotic brawl shocked the nation when it emerged and the subsequent prosecution is estimated to have cost close to £2million.The financial details were obtained through a Freedom of Information request by the Daily Mail.Amaaz was found guilty at the first trial of assaulting PC Lydia Ward, PC Ellie Cook, and a customer at a Starbucks outlet inside the airport.He was jailed for three-and-a-half years in May, while his elder brother Amaad was acquitted of those charges.However, both siblings had also faced a more serious charge of causing grievous bodily harm to PC Zachary Marsden — the officer captured on camera kicking Amaaz in the face, an...

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