The alleged attack on a police officer at Manchester Airport has ended in another deadlocked jury

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:02]Hello again.

[00:00:04]I am guessing that few viewers would have been aware that for the last month or so, the trial has been taking place of the two brothers who are alleged to have assaulted police officers and broken a police woman's nose back in 2024 at Manchester airport.

[00:00:23]It is the second time that Muhammad Fakah and Muhammad Amar been tried for causing actual bodily harm to a police officer. And once again, the jury could not reach a verdict and have been discharged.

[00:00:40]It is up to the Crown Prosecution Service now to decide if they will proceed to a third trial or simply drop the case.

[00:00:49]It is traditional when two trials have failed to reach a verdict in this way, but the case is abandoned.

[00:00:58]The film of the incident is freely available on the internet, and I dare say that most viewers have watched it. I venture to suggest that anybody unable to reach a sensible verdict after seeing that footage must surely be either deaf, dumb, and blind, or possibly suffering from severe learning difficulties.

[00:01:19]or is Muslim.

[00:01:22]You see, all you really need to do to derail the trial is for three members of the jury to stubbornly refuse to convict on principle, no matter what the evidence.

[00:01:38]This happens pretty often and accounts for the fact that some crown courts have much lower conviction rates than others.

[00:01:47]Snares in East London, for example, has always had the lowest conviction rate in the country. This is because its juries are drawn from workingclass districts in the East End, which have little sympathy with or liking for the police. It was always like that at Snaresport. Armed robbers who were absolutely banged to rights would walk free in the 70s because a group of white workingclass people didn't really like the police.

[00:02:15]These days that kind of thing happens not only on the basis of class but also ethnicity and religion. Black people are reluctant to convict black other black people and Muslims sometimes consider it a sin to convict their co-religionists.

[00:02:33]The suspicion in Manchester is that this is what has happened at both trials of those brothers.

[00:02:39]There was initially an accusation of racism and Islamophobia against the police. if people will recall uh the summer of 2024 and the memory of this is rather stuck.

[00:02:52]So if three Muslims were on each of those juries which were deadlocked and refused under any circumstances however compelling the evidence to convict that would be sufficient.

[00:03:04]Like most viewers, I'm appalled to see this business dragging on in this way for 2 years when most people watching the film of what happened might be forgiven for thinking it was pretty much an open and shut case.

[00:03:17]As usual, I give a link to a news story about this in the description to this video. Viewers might ask themselves why this case is not being covered in the mainstream media. The opening day was mentioned on some national news site such as the BBC. That was back in April.

[00:03:36]But then nothing at all until the end of the trial. No coverage of the evidence at all.