(Sky News) A man who took a viable pressure cooker bomb into a hospital in Leeds intending to “kill as many nurses as possible” 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 found guilty after his trial last year of attempting to launch an Islamic State-inspired suicide attack using a homemade bomb on the hospital where he worked in 2023.
He was also jailed for plotting to attack RAF Mentwith Hill in North Yorkshire.
Sentencing Farooq, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb praised the actions of Nathan Newby, the patient who talked him out of exploding his homemade device.
