Mohammed Farooq is standing trial at Sheffield Crown Court accused of plotting a terror attack at St James' Hospital
A Leeds man accused of plotting a terror attack at St James' Hospital was “ready and willing” to detonate a homemade bomb there because of a “sense of anger and grievance” towards work colleagues and not Islamist extremism, his barrister has told a jury.
“He accepts making a viable bomb. He accepts at times being ready and willing to detonate that bomb at the hospital. He has, however, pleaded not guilty to this allegation. Mr Sandiford said Farooq was preparing to detonate a viable pressure cooker bomb when he was talked out of it by a patient, Nathan Newby, who was having a smoke outside St James’s Hospital on January 20. He said Mr Newby’s actions “certainly saved many lives” as the defendant said he was intending to “kill as many nurses as possible."
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