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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Dave Higgens

Patient who talked down hospital bomb suspect did ‘something brave’, jury hears

A patient who talked a man out of trying to detonate a bomb in a hospital has agreed in court that what started out as an act of kindness ended up as “something quite brave”.

Nathan Newby has told a jury how he started talking to Mohammed Farooq at St James’s Hospital in Leeds because he thought he was upset and wanted to try to cheer him up.

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