Patient 'talked hospital worker down from deadly lone wolf terror attack'

A RADICALISED hospital worker was persuaded by a patient to abandon his plans to slaughter "as many nurses as possible" in a bomb and knife rampage, a court has heard.

- Paul Jeeves

Mohammad Farooq was about to carry out a "lone wolf" attack where he worked when he was spotted by Nathan Newby, it is claimed.

The clinical support worker was allegedly ready to explode his homemade pressure cooker bomb at St James's University Hospital in Leeds.

But Mr Newby managed to "talk down" Farooq, 28, in the early hours of January 20 last year, it was said.