Manchester Airport Fight Started with Starbucks Incident, Jury Told

Mr Greaney said the defendants had travelled to the airport with their young nephew to collect their mother who was due to arrive back on a flight from Qatar.

He said it was clear that \"something happened\" involving Abdulkareem Ismaeil, who was on the same flight as the pair's mother, that \"made her unhappy\". She pointed out Mr Ismaeil, who was in Starbucks with his family, to her sons as they were walking through the terminal.

\"At just after 8.20pm, the defendants entered Starbucks and confronted Abdulkareem Ismaei,\" Mr Greaney said. \"During that confrontation, Mohammed Fahir Amaaz delivered a headbutt to the face of Abdulkareem Ismaeil and punched him, then attempted to deliver other blows, all in front of a number of children. The prosecution case is that this was obviously unlawful conduct.\"

Mr Greaney told jurors the prosecution's position was this was \"not a complicated case\" as the events were captured on CCTV. \"So you will not have to depend only on the recollections of witnesses. You will also be able to see with your own eyes what happened,\" he said.

Mr Greaney said the defendants would say \"that at all stages they were acting in lawful self-defence or in defence of the other\". \"Our prediction is that you will readily conclude that the defendants were not acting in lawful self-defence and that their conduct was unlawful,\" he added.