(ITV) A student nurse accused of plotting a terrorist attack at an RAF base after he was allegedly found with a pressure cooker bomb outside a hospital in Leeds is to face a trial in the autumn.
Mohammad Farooq, 27, was allegedly inspired by radical Islam to carry out online research and then “hostile reconnaissance” of the military base in Yorkshire on 10 and 18 January.
Farooq is said to have constructed a viable bomb made from a pressure cooker, 13.7 kilos of a homemade low-explosive mixture and a length of pyrotechnic fuse.
He was arrested in the early hours of 20 January outside the Gledhow wing at St James’s University Hospital in Leeds, where the maternity unit is based. He had been due to work a shift that day.
