Nathan Newby set to receive George Medal for stopping a potential atrocity with an act of kindness Nathan Newby set to receive George Medal for stopping a potential atrocity with an act of kindness A hospital patient who managed to talk a man out of detonating a bomb in a maternity wing said the would-be attacker “asked for a cuddle” before standing down. Nathan Newby, who stopped an atrocity through an act of kindness, spoke publicly for the first time about his encounter with Mohammad Farooq