By GB News (World News) | Created at 2025-03-21 15:03:37 | Updated at 2025-04-04 01:15:41
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A trainee nurse who was found guilty of planning a terror plot to bomb a Leeds hospital has been jailed for life at Sheffield Crown Court.
Mohammad Farooq, who took a viable pressure cooker bomb into a Leeds hospital intending to “kill as many nurses as possible”, has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 37 years.
Farooq, 28, from Leeds, was arrested outside St James’ Hospital in the city with the bomb - designed to be doubly as powerful as those used by the Boston Marathon bombers in 2013.
Before his sentencing, Sheffield Crown Court heard how Farooq had immersed himself in an “extremist Islamic ideology” and went to the hospital to “seek his own martyrdom” through a “murderous terrorist attack”.
