A pupil nurse appeared in a British courtroom Friday, charged with planning to assault an air pressure base and taking a home-made bomb to a hospital maternity unit the place he labored.

Mohammad Farooq, 27, was arrested outdoors St. James’s College Hospital in Leeds, northern England, on Jan. 20 with what prosecutors say was a “viable” pressure-cooker bomb containing 13.7 kilograms (30 kilos) of a do-it-yourself low-explosive combination.

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Prosecutors additionally allege that Farooq carried out “hostile reconnaissance” of a Royal Air Power base in northern England earlier this month after being inspired on-line to assault it.

He faces one cost of making ready an act of terrorism in reference to the air base plan, which prosecutors allege was motivated by Islamic extremism.

Farooq is also charged with possessing an explosive substance and possessing an imitation firearm over the hospital incident, which prosecutors say was motivated by a grudge in opposition to one other employees member.

Farooq appeared by video hyperlink at Westminster Magistrates’ Courtroom. He was not requested to enter pleas and was ordered detained till his subsequent courtroom listening to on Feb. 3 at London’s Central Legal Courtroom.