A teen arrested in a taxi with a bag containing two terrifying knives launched a brutal attack on a detective while he was being quizzed by counter terror police.
Muhammad Zakir Arif, 18, has been jailed after he ‘spontaneously’ got up from his seat in a police station interview room and began repeatedly punching the male detective, before grabbing him in a choke hold.
He shouted ‘there is no God but Allah’ in Arabic during the ‘unprovoked’ attack, Manchester Crown Court heard. Arif, from Bury, had previously been arrested in Hulme after being stopped as the passenger in a taxi, where he was found to have been in possession of a rucksack which contained a machete and a zombie knife. READ MORE: Chaos erupts on Ryanair Manchester to Ibiza flight as passengers start 'scrapping' mid-air He told police that he ‘didn’t want to do anything’ and said ‘I only had those in my bag because I like weapons’.
Arif refused to reveal the PIN code to his phone. A judge approved a legal request by prosecutors to compel Arif to disclose his access code under the grounds of ‘national security’.
Read more on manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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