TWO men have been charged with assaulting police after a disturbance at Manchester Airport but no officers will face charges.

Footage of a fracas was shared online in July and prompted protests after it appeared to show a Greater Manchester Police (GMP) officer kicking and stamping on the head of a man as he lay on the floor.

The altercation, in the airport’s Terminal Two, allegedly happened after an earlier confrontation between passengers on a Qatar Airways flight which arrived at 7.20pm on July 23.

Today, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, 20, of Rochdale, had been charged with two offences of causing actual bodily harm, one charge of assaulting an emergency worker and one charge of common assault.

Muhammed Amaad, 25, also from Rochdale, was charged with causing actual bodily harm.

A female officer suffered a broken nose and two other police officers were taken to hospital following the incident, GMP said.

Prosecutors said experts had concluded there was “no realistic prospect of conviction” of any police officers.

Brothers Amaaz and Amaad and their mother Shameem Akhtar, 56, alleged they were assaulted by police during the altercation, which took place near a car park pay point.

Lawyers for the family said the men maintain their innocence and will contest the allegations.

In a statement, solicitor Aamer Anwar said the family were shocked by the news no officers will be charged and they will be requesting a victim’s right of review of the CPS decision.

He said: “Our legal team will review the CPS decision, but believe they have fundamentally failed in the two-stage test which prosecutors must apply when deciding whether a case should result in proceedings before a court or not.

“The first stage is the ‘evidential stage’ and the second stage is the ‘public interest stage’.”

The men will appear at Liverpool Magistrates’ Court on January 16.