A man who took a viable pressure cooker bomb in a hospital in Leeds with the aim of “killing so many nurses” has been jailed for life.
Mohammad Farooq was sentenced to a minimum term of 37 years at Sheffield Crown Court on Friday.
Farooq, who was a trainee nurse, was convicted last year of attempting to start an IS-inspired suicide attack using a homemade bomb in the hospital where he worked in 2023.
He was also jailed for the plot to attack Raf Mentwith Hill.
Mrs Justice Ceema-Grubb, who judges Farooq, praised the patient’s actions of Nathan Newby, the patient who spoke to explode his homemade device.
The device would have been twice as powerful as those used by the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombers.
The judge said: “He is an extraordinary, ordinary man whose decency and kindness on January 20, 2023, prevented an atrocity in a maternity wing of a large British hospital.”
She said that Mr. Newby was a ‘modest and soft man whose testimony was one of the most remarkable this court has ever heard’.
The jury heard how the clinical support worker was inspired by Daesh propaganda to acquire weapons and produce an explosives in readiness for an attack.
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