>The court was told he had immersed himself in an “extremist Islamic ideology” and went to the hospital to “seek his own martyrdom” through a “murderous terrorist attack”.
But r/UK assured me this had nothing to do with Islamic extremism and was just a work grievance?
tomoldbury on
Anyone prepared to bomb a hospital is depraved beyond saving. There isn’t a shred of a good person there. Lock them up and throw away the key.
Illegitimateopinion on
In a rough read, this was the most nicest part of that article.
> But the court heard “luck intervened again” because a patient, Nathan Newby, was standing outside the hospital having a cigarette and “noticed the defendant”.’
He said: “Mr Newby realised something was amiss and began to talk to him instead of walking away.
“That simple act of kindness almost certainly saved many lives that night because, as the defendant was later to tell the police officers who arrested him, Mr Newby succeeded in ‘talking him down’.”
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>The court was told he had immersed himself in an “extremist Islamic ideology” and went to the hospital to “seek his own martyrdom” through a “murderous terrorist attack”.
But r/UK assured me this had nothing to do with Islamic extremism and was just a work grievance?
Anyone prepared to bomb a hospital is depraved beyond saving. There isn’t a shred of a good person there. Lock them up and throw away the key.
In a rough read, this was the most nicest part of that article.
> But the court heard “luck intervened again” because a patient, Nathan Newby, was standing outside the hospital having a cigarette and “noticed the defendant”.’
He said: “Mr Newby realised something was amiss and began to talk to him instead of walking away.
“That simple act of kindness almost certainly saved many lives that night because, as the defendant was later to tell the police officers who arrested him, Mr Newby succeeded in ‘talking him down’.”