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Top bravery award for patient who stopped would-be hospital bomber
Yorkshire Evening Post
|October 17, 2025
A Leeds man has received a medal of bravery for his role in “talking down” a suspected bomber from carrying out a “potentially catastrophic” attack at St James's Hospital.
Farooq was jailed on terrorism offences after he planned to detonate a bomb at St James's Hospital in Leeds.
Nathan Newby has been awarded the George Medal for preventing the planned bombing on January 20, 2023, while a patient. In the early hours of the morning, Mr Newby spotted Mohammad Farooq and thought he was struggling with his mental health. Farooq, who was a clinical support worker at the hospital, had a pressure-cooker bomb and was planning to set it off in a café full of nurses.
During Farooq's trial at Sheffield Crown Court, it was heard he had a grievance against former colleagues and “had been conducting a poison-pen campaign against them” after perceiving that they had “wronged him”.
This story is from the October 17, 2025 edition of Yorkshire Evening Post.
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