A trainee nurse who was found guilty of planning a terror plot to bomb a Leeds hospital has been jailed for life at Sheffield Crown Court.
Mohammad Farooq, who took a viable pressure cooker bomb into a Leeds hospital intending to “kill as many nurses as possible”, has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 37 years.
Farooq, 28, from Leeds, was arrested outside St James’ Hospital in the city with the bomb - designed to be doubly as powerful as those used by the Boston Marathon bombers in 2013.
Before his sentencing, Sheffield Crown Court heard how Farooq had immersed himself in an “extremist Islamic ideology” and went to the hospital to “seek his own martyrdom” through a “murderous terrorist attack”.
Sentencing Mohammad Farooq at Sheffield Crown Court, Justice Cheema-Grubb lauded the actions of Nathan Newby, who was the patient who talked Farooq out of exploding his home-made device.
Such an explosion would have been to be twice as powerful as those used by the 2013 Boston Marathon bombers.
During the sentencing the judge said: “He’s an extraordinary, ordinary man whose decency and kindness on January 20 2023, prevented an atrocity in a maternity wing of a major British hospital.”
She said Newby was a “modest and gentle man whose evidence was among the most remarkable this court has ever heard”.
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Mohammad Farooq, who took a viable pressure cooker bomb into a Leeds hospital intending to “kill as many nurses as possible”, has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 37 years.
Farooq, 28, from Leeds, was arrested outside St James’ Hospital in the city with the bomb - designed to be doubly as powerful as those used by the Boston Marathon bombers in 2013.
Before his sentencing, Sheffield Crown Court heard how Farooq had immersed himself in an “extremist Islamic ideology” and went to the hospital to “seek his own martyrdom” through a “murderous terrorist attack”.
Sentencing Mohammad Farooq at Sheffield Crown Court, Justice Cheema-Grubb lauded the actions of Nathan Newby, who was the patient who talked Farooq out of exploding his home-made device.
Such an explosion would have been to be twice as powerful as those used by the 2013 Boston Marathon bombers.
During the sentencing the judge said: “He’s an extraordinary, ordinary man whose decency and kindness on January 20 2023, prevented an atrocity in a maternity wing of a major British hospital.”
She said Newby was a “modest and gentle man whose evidence was among the most remarkable this court has ever heard”.
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