‘You used me as a punch bag…then played the victim’: Manchester Airport attacker is jailed for three years as policewoman punched to the face brands him a ‘coward’

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.’