(ITV) A staff member plotted a “lone wolf” terror attack against the hospital where he worked and an RAF base after becoming radicalised online, a court has heard.
Clinical support worker Mohammad Farooq, 28, took a viable bomb made from a pressure cooker to St James’s Hospital in Leeds.
He planned to detonate the device before attacking patients and staff with knives, Sheffield Crown Court was told.
Farooq hoped to “seal his own martyrdom” by having police shoot him dead, the jury heard.
Prosecutors say his attack was only foiled when a patient managed to “talk him down.”
