Patient ‘tried to cheer up depressed bomber’ at Leeds hospital
A patient averted a bomb attack on a Leeds hospital by asking the would-be bomber if he was “all right” and then keeping him talking for five hours, a court has been told.
Mohammad Sohail Farooq, 28, a clinical support worker, was arrested on January 20 outside St James’s Hospital in Leeds with a viable bomb, manufactured from a pressure cooker and 9.9kg of low explosive.
Farooq had been viewing extremist videos on TikTok, and had also conducted a reconnaissance trip around the RAF Menwith Hill listening station, Sheffield crown court was told.
