A British man was found guilty of preparing acts of terrorism after plotting to bomb a hospital in Leeds and an RAF base. Mohammad Farooq, 28, had targeted St James’s Hospital in January 2023. Jurors unanimously convicted Farooq, who is from Hetton Road in Leeds. He will be sentenced at a later date.
The clinical support worker had planned to “kill as many nurses as possible” by detonating a pressure cooker bomb at St James’s Hospital. He was stopped from carrying out the attack by a patient who moved him away from the building and called the police. Farooq’s first target was RAF Menwith Hill, a spy base near Harrogate which is operated by US and UK staff. When he thought that was not possible, jurors were told Farooq then switched to the “softer and less well-protected target” of St James’s Hospital in the early hours of 20 January last year.
Farooq was arrested outside the hospital with the pressure cooker bomb, which was designed to be twice as powerful as those used by the Boston
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