00:00When did he first mention the bomb?
00:03Probably about an hour into the conversation.
00:08He was constantly watching it. We were about seven foot away from us.
00:13And every nurse walked past it, he was like,
00:15looking at them, looking at the bomb.
00:18Well, looking at the bag, sorry.
00:20And then he asked him what was in it.
00:22He said, oh, if it's your bag, why haven't you got it near you?
00:26Do you know what I mean? It's...
00:30And then he just come out with it. I said, what's in it?
00:32And he hummed it hard. They were like, didn't want to, but then I got out of him.
00:37He just said, it's just a bomb. And I'm like, OK.
00:42Mohamed Farouk was jailed for life with a minimum term of 37 years
00:46after taking a homemade pressure cooker bomb into St. James's Hospital in Leeds in 2023.
00:53Nathan Newby, who was a patient at the hospital on the night Farouk planned to carry out the bombing,
00:59has received the George Medal for bravery.
01:01He talked the lone wolf terrorist out of detonating his device,
01:05with the would-be attacker asking for a cuddle before telling him to phone the police
01:10before he changed his mind.
01:12Nathan has been reflecting on the encounter.
01:16I could hear it in his voice that...
01:20It was...
01:21Not like a joke or all that, but...
01:24So I asked him to have a look at it, just to confirm it,
01:26and then...
01:27He just...
01:27I probably opened it up and showed me it.
01:30I thought I was scared, yeah, but...
01:33It concerns him more to just try and get him away or...
01:36I wasn't going to, like, shout and...
01:39Things like that, say there was a bomb here,
01:40because they were being, like, nervous for all of us,
01:42and...
01:43It just caused havoc,
01:44so I just thought,
01:45is it the best way to keep it quiet and just get him out of the way?
01:48And I got my phone out, and it didn't mean he was dead.
01:50So I put him on the bench, and I'm like,
01:52can I be cheeky and bother your phone?
01:54And then, yeah, I went front of the police,
01:56which...
01:57I was sort of a bit relieved,
01:58but at the end of the day,
02:00he could have still...
02:00He could have still changed his mind at any time,
02:02even if I went front of the police or not.
02:04The woman on the phone asked me if...
02:06If he's got anything on him that'll harm myself,
02:10him and, you know, officers when they get there.
02:13So I asked him and just opened his coat
02:15and just pointed a gun to me for about 34 seconds.
02:21Then realised what he'd done,
02:22and then sort of grabbed it and turned it round
02:25and went to give me it,
02:26and I was like,
02:27I don't want to touch that mate,
02:28put it on the bench.
02:30It was just going through bad things at the time,
02:34and when you're in that situation,
02:37it's, you know,
02:39your mind's capable of doing all sorts of things
02:41that you don't expect.
02:42There were a lot of things going on,
02:44so it was like...
02:46It didn't really all got to sink in till afterwards,
02:49when I was like,
02:50I got pleased for it.
02:52It was like...
02:53Then it started sinking in,
02:54then it could have been...
02:56Well, yeah, it could have been different.
02:57I'm going for you.
02:58I'm going for you,
02:59Then just...
02:59You're going for you.
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