A student nurse has been found guilty of attempting to launch an Islamic State-inspired suicide attack after taking a homemade bomb to the hospital where he worked.
Mohammad Sohail Farooq, 28, was arrested outside St James’s Hospital in Leeds with a bomb manufactured from a pressure cooker containing almost 10kg of explosives.
He had modelled it on the device that was used to kill three people at the Boston Marathon in 2013, but with double the amount of explosives.
The attack was averted by a “real act of bravery” from a patient at the hospital who engaged him in conversation outside the building and managed to persuade him to abandon the plan.
It can be disclosed that police discovered Farooq had watched antisemitic videos on
