Brothers used ‘high level of violence' in assaulting officers at Manchester Airport
Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, 20, and Muhammad Amaad, 26, are said to have struck out after police were called to respond to an earlier incident at the Starbucks cafe in the Terminal 2 building on July 23 last year.
Amaaz delivered a headbutt to the face of a member of a public and punched him in Starbucks, Liverpool Crown Court heard.
Opening the prosecution case on Friday, Paul Greaney KC said officers who were already in the airport later traced them at the terminal's car park payment area.
Three officers, Pc Zachary Marsden and Pc Ellie Cook – both armed – and Pc Lydia Ward, unarmed, approached the defendants, he said.
Mr Greaney went on: 'The officers attempted to move Mohammed Fahir Amaaz away from a payment machine in order to arrest him, but he resisted, and his brother Muhammad Amaad intervened.
'Both defendants assaulted Pc Marsden.
'In the moments that followed, the first defendant also assaulted Pc Cook and then Pc Ward too, breaking her nose.
'The defendants used a high level of violence.'
Amaaz is alleged to have assaulted Pc Marsden and Pc Ward, causing them actual bodily harm.
He is also accused of the assault of Pc Cook and the earlier assault of Abdulkareem Ismaeil at Starbucks.
Amaad, 26, is alleged to have assaulted Pc Marsden, causing actual bodily harm.
Both men, from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, deny the allegations.
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