Terrorist Mohammed Farooq who plotted to bomb maternity ward faces life sentence

An Islamic terrorist who was caught outside a maternity ward with a pressure cooker bomb ‘twice as powerful’ as the one used in the Boston Marathon attack is facing years in jail. Mohammed Farooq, 28, targeted St James’ Hospital in Leeds where he had worked as a clinical support worker. Farooq was arrested outside the maternity ward on 20 January 2023 after showing a member of the public a gun and saying that he ‘felt like killing everyone’. He told…

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