The Leeds Hospital Bomb Plot

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Nathan Newby steps outside St James’s Hospital in Leeds for a vape and finds himself face-to-face with a man carrying a bomb. Nobody else knows what’s happening, and Nathan realises that keeping him talking may be the only way to stop an attack. The man is Mohamed Farouk, an NHS worker who has built a pressure cooker bomb and planned an attack on the hospital where he worked. As patients and staff remain inside, Nathan spends more than two hours trying to move Farouk away from the building, understand what he intends to do and persuade him to change his mind. BBC Yorkshire’s Home Affairs correspondent Emma Glasby tells the story of the St James’s Hospital plot, the investigation into Farouk and the extraordinary actions that later earned Nathan Newby the George Medal. Get in touch with us behaveyourself@bbc.co.uk Presenter: Rima Ahmed Reporter: Emma Glasbey Producer: Luke de Costa Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge Researcher: Bethan Davies Video Producer: Fede Marilotti Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes & Alistair Miskin Rima Ahmed explores bizarre true crime, including audacious heists, drug smuggling, elaborate frauds, scams, catfishing, identity theft and cybercrime, alongside BBC reporters who have covered the cases first-hand.