Dramatic moment 'cowardly' teen fugitive is caught at Manchester Airport trying to flee country

This is the dramatic moment armed police swooped at Manchester Airport to arrest a teen fugitive wanted over an horrific machete attack.

Two weeks earlier, 18-year-old Sayam Ali had carried out the attack in broad daylight with a 12-inch blade over a drugs debt, leaving his victim bleeding so heavily he thought he was going to die.

Through his solicitor, he told police he would hand himself in but he never showed up and instead plotted to leave the country. This police body-cam footage shows Ali being arrested at Manchester Airport where he had a ticket for a flight to Malta.

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With the noise of excited holidaymakers waiting for their flights in the background, police body-cam footage released by GMP shows drug dealer Ali being escorted away by armed officers.

Asked whether he has anything to say when he is read his rights, the teenager shakes his head and replies quietly 'no'.

Today he is beginning a long jail sentence for carrying out the machete attack in Rochdale on June 14 when Ali jumped out of a car and assaulted a 16-year-old boy.

He attacked the youth in revenge for losing drugs he had given him to sell. The court heard that when victim's mother found the drugs and flushed them down the toilet, the teenager told her: "I'm going to get chopped up. I'm in deep s**t. I can't get out of this. You don't know what will happen to me. We need to give them back. I don't know how I'm going to get out of this."

CCTV footage played at Minshull Street Crown Court showed Ali chasing his victim across Sheriff Street, slashing him across the shoulder with the weapon.

After the youth