He admitted possessing a pressure cooker bomb
Mohammed Farooq, 28, is on trial at Sheffield Crown Court accused of planning terrorist attacks on St James's Hospital in Leeds and an RAF base. Farooq, who was an NHS worker at the hospital, was captured on body-worn camera footage telling armed police that a patient talked him out of exploding a bomb at a hospital, the footage was shown to the jury.
It shows the police getting out of their vehicle and calmly asking Farooq, who has his hands in the air, to walk towards them, and he appears totally compliant as they handcuff him. He tells the officers there is a gun on the nearby bench and one of them tells him: “I’m not here to give you any aggro.
Prosecutors allege that the defendant had also planned to attack the American base at RAF Menwith Hill, near Harrogate in North Yorkshire. Defence barrister Gul Nawaz Hussain KC has told the court his client was “ready and willing” to detonate the home-made bomb at the hospital because of a “sense of anger and grievance” towards work colleagues but was not motivated by Islamist extremism and not radicalised.
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