Controversial TikTok lawyer at centre of Manchester Airport furore breaks his silence for first time since new footage of 'attack' emerged - and says there is NO justification for stamping on teenager's head.
The family of the brothers involved in the Manchester Airport furore have revealed their 'real concern' for the police officers injured in the violence which led to an officer being stood down.
On Thursday, their then-solicitor Mr Yakoob said Mr Amaaz had been kicked in the head by an officer and claimed a CT scan had found a cyst on his brain.They also said the family has 'real concern for any police officer injured'. The intervention comes after the dramatic footage revealed that three police officers were 'viciously' attacked - leaving one with a broken nose and one slumped on the floor - moments before one of them kicked a teenager in the head.
While senior police sources admitted one officer seen kicking the teenager appears to have lost control, they insist the full picture is far more complicated than initially portrayed. 'I attended a protest in Manchester City Centre attempting to stop trams from operating. I urged them not to do so and calmed them down and they went home.
In a bid to quell tensions, Mr Burnham once again insisted there were 'two sides' to this 'complicated situation' which escalated 'very quickly' and became a 'very violent situation'. When probed on how long the police investigation could take, Mr Burnham said 'you can't put a timeline on these things' but hoped it would be completed 'as quickly as possible given the huge interest in the whole issue'.The solicitor representing the brothers at the centre of the Manchester Airport storm has been called 'the TikTok lawyer' because of the videos of his millionaire lifestyle which he shares with his 200,000 followers.
Labour said it employed a digital forensics company which found evidence that the video had been manipulated. West Midlands Police concluded no offensive words had been uttered. Mr Yakoob also posted the teacher's name and the name of her school. Others posted her phone number and email address.Mr Yakoob later said he had 'deleted the post from all my social media' and 'would like to see the findings' of the Labour Party and the police.
'And I did also say to people"Be careful, this isn't as simple as it looks, time is needed here, it is a very complicated situation"'.Mr Burnham added while speaking on Sky News: 'It's a complicated situation, a very violent situation and there were issues on both sides.'And simply nobody out there - everyone who's having their say - nobody has got the facts.
Despite their lawyer Mr Yakoob being accused of sparking more chaos on the streets of Rochdale, in a TikTok video last night the lawyer insisted he 'does not promote violence'. Mr Burnham this morning criticised the 'social media age' where people are able to view just a 'fragment' of a situation Until last night, little has been known about what happened in the moments leading up to the events captured by other passengers on their mobile phones – or how things escalated.
Words are said to have been exchanged between their mother and a male passenger on board the flight, which landed at 7.20pm. He is shown resisting before Amaad appears to throw a barrage of at least six punches at the male police officer, who crumples on to a row of metal seats. 'All the punches were full-blooded haymakers,' the source said. 'He smashed the red-haired officer in the face, poleaxed her basically, flattened her out and broke her nose. How can you smash a woman police officer in the face? It is vile.'
The fight ended only when the first female officer was able to stagger back to her feet and fire her Taser at Fahir, which knocked him over. Sources also fear that the officers involved could be forced into hiding – in a disturbing echo of an incident in 2021 when a religious studies teacher at Batley Grammar School in West Yorkshire was forced to leave his home after showing a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad in class.
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