Mohammad Farooq: Terrorist found guilty of St James’s Hospital in Leeds plot
Mohammad Farooq, 28, who has been found guilty of preparing terrorist acts, after he was arrested outside St James’s Hospital in Leeds, with a pressure cooker bomb in the early hours of January 20 last year.
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00:00Hi, I'm Sophie Malan-Malin and here are today's headlines.
00:05A self-radicalised terrorist has been found guilty of terrorism after a hospital bomb plot here in Yorkshire.
00:13A brave patient in that same hospital managed to talk down the terrorist, preventing utter devastation.
00:22Mohammed Farouk has been found guilty of terrorism after a St James' Hospital bomb plot.
00:30Farouk was arrested outside St James' Hospital in Leeds with a pressure cooker bomb designed to be twice as powerful as those used by the Boston Marathon bombers in 2013.
00:43Patient Nathan Newby intervened in an act of kindness that turned into an act of bravery.
00:52Sheffield Crown Court heard how Mr Newby stepped in after support worker Farouk took a pressure cooker device with 10kg of explosives into the hospital where he worked in January last year.
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