An “extraordinary, ordinary man” who talked a “self-radicalised lone wolf terrorist” out of exploding a device in the maternity wing of a hospital has been praised by a judge who jailed the potential bomber for a minimum of 37 years.
Mohammad Farooq took a home-made pressure cooker bomb, which was modelled on those detonated at the 2013 Boston Marathon but with twice the amount of explosives, into St James’s Hospital in Leeds in January 2023, but “lost his bottle” after talking to patient Nathan Newby.
