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A “self-radicalised lone wolf terrorist” who took a bomb to the hospital where he worked trying to “kill as many nurses as possible” has been found guilty of preparing terrorist acts. Mohammad Farooq, 28, from Leeds, was arrested outside St James’s Hospital in the city with a pressure cooker bomb – designed to be doubly as powerful as those used by the Boston Marathon bombers in 2013. Sheffield Crown Court heard how Farooq had immersed himself in an “extremist Islamic ideology” and went to the hospital to “seek his own martyrdom” through a “murderous terrorist attack”. He was stopped by a pati…

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