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£113,000 taxpayer-funded legal aid handed to brothers who brawled with police at Manchester Airport

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Daily Mail
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£113,000 taxpayer-funded legal aid handed to brothers who brawled with police at Manchester Airport
Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, 21, was convicted at last year of assaulting PC Lydia Ward, PC Ellie Cook and a Starbucks customer at the airport in July 2024. In June, he was jailed for three and a half years.
3 Aug, 00:13
GB News
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Brothers who brawled with police officers in Manchester Airport were handed £113k in taxpayer-funded legal aid
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 subsequen
2 Aug, 21:55