Patient talked Leeds hospital worker out of detonating bomb, court told

Mohammed Farooq intended to ‘kill as many nurses as possible’ in terror attack, prosecution alleges

A hospital worker was talked out of detonating a homemade bomb to kill his colleagues when a patient thought he looked upset and tried to “cheer him up”, a court has heard.

Mohammed Farooq, 28, is accused of planning a terrorist atrocity at St James’s hospital in Leeds, where he was found with a viable pressure cooker explosive on 20 January.