This is the shocking moment a female police officer was left bleeding and sobbing after being assaulted during a brawl at Manchester Airport.
PC Lydia Ward said she was “absolutely terrified” after she was floored with a punch and left with a broken nose at the Terminal 2 car park.
Mohammed Fahir Amaaz and his brother, Muhammad Amaad are accused of multiple counts of assault on July 23 last year.
PC Ward told the men’s trial she remembered "falling on the floor and everything went black" after a " forceful" blow to her face.
She and two colleagues approached Mr Amaaz at a ticket machine following a report that a male fitting his description headbutted a customer at the T2 terminal Starbucks, Liverpool Crown Court heard.
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But Mr Amaaz allegedly resisted, and Mr Amaad is then said to have intervened, leading to a "high level of violence" towards the officers.
PC Ward told the jury: "I was trying to keep hold of Mr Amaaz's arm and get it behind his back so I could get some cuffs on him."
She said PC Zachary Marsden fell or was pushed towards some seats, resulting in Mr Amaaz then kicking out at her colleague.
PC Ward added: "I tried to grab him off so he could stop kicking PC Marsden. All I remember then is that he turned and he punched me straight in the face.
"I can't really remember where it landed but I know where my injuries were. I remember falling on the floor and everything went black."
I was absolutely terrified
She added: "As I came round, all I could feel was blood pouring out of my nose. I was just thinking he has done something to my nose, face area, I didn't know what has happened."
"I was terrified to be honest. I was absolutely terrified. I had never experienced that level of violence towards me in my life.
"I didn't know who was going to come up at me next. I was scared of going after this male again and being punched in the face again."
PC Ward claimed her emergency radio’s battery was knocked out from the punch and that nobody in the area came to assist her or her fellow officers as they were "filming on their mobile phones".
Rosemary Fernandes, representing Mr Amaaz, put it to PC Ward that her client was "taken by surprise" by the police approaching them and that he acted in “lawful defence”.
PC Ward responded: "We didn't have any time for rational discussion with this male as it turned violently quickly. I don't know how he felt I was an assailant. He turned towards me and punched me in the face.”
Bodycam footage from the incident was played to the jury which showed PC Ward being comforted by a colleague in the aftermath.
Mr Amaaz, 20, is charged with assaulting PC Marsden and PC Ward, causing them actual bodily harm, as well as the assault of PC Cook and Abdulkareem Ismaeil at the Starbucks.
Meanwhile, Mr Amaad, 26, is alleged to have assaulted PC Marsden, causing actual bodily harm.
Both men, from Rochdale in Greater Manchester, deny the allegations. The trial continues.
