The jury has retired to consider its verdict in a trial where a man is accused of plotting a terror attack at St James' Hospital in Leeds.
Read more: 'They don't pay council tax and dump all their rubbish on the street' Leeds woman, 97, vents fury at student exodus The prosecutor said Farooq left but returned shortly afterwards with a new plan to wait in a hospital café for a staff shift change and detonate his device, “killing as many nurses as possible."
He said: “Mr Newby stayed with the defendant, keeping him engaged and calm. Mr Newby also persuaded the defendant to move away from the main entrance to a seating area so that the IED was as far away from the building as it was possible to go.”The defendant was arrested by officers who found the “viable” pressure cooker bomb had just under 10 kilograms of low explosive.
Movements of the defendant’s mobile phone and car showed that he made at least two visits to the locality of Menwith Hill in the 10 days leading up to his arrest, jurors were told. He denies preparing acts of terrorism. Mr Sandiford said the defendant admits intending to attack St James’s Hospital but denies any intention to attack Menwith Hill.