Student nurse appears in court accused of planning terrorist attack at RAF base

Mohammad Farooq was allegedly found with a pressure cooker bomb outside St James’s university hospital in Leeds

A student nurse has appeared in court accused of planning a terrorist attack at an RAF base after he was allegedly found with a pressure cooker bomb outside a hospital in Leeds.

Mohammad Farooq, 27, was allegedly inspired by radical Islam and Jihad when he carried out “hostile reconnaissance” of the military base in Yorkshire on January 10 and 18 after carrying out online research.