The suspicious package was found in the accident and emergency department A hospital security guard who planted a fake bomb where he worked prompting a six-hour security alert has been jailed for 15 months.
Jeffrey Martin Horne, 43, had only worked at Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield for a few weeks before the hoax last November.
The A&E unit was closed and almost 80 surgical operations cancelled.
Horne was told at Birmingham Crown Court that the hoax was for attention.
Police were called to the hospital at about 0800 GMT on 23 November.
The package incorporated black and white wiring and a bottle containing a liquid.
The incident cost the NHS £218,000 and culminated in a controlled explosion carried out by the Army in a hospital toilet cubicle, the court heard.
Sentencing Horne, a former soldier of Mile Oak in Tamworth, Staffordshire, Judge Sybil Thomas said: "You were employed as a security officer trusted to keep the hospital safe.
"This was therefore a gross breach of that trust."
The court heard Horne, a father-of-four, was seen seen apparently attempting to defuse the device in the cubicle.
He was also said to have "paraded" in front of camera crews covering the security alert.
The agency worker was charged with the offence in February after wires matching those used in the hoax were found in his garden shed and CCTV footage exposed him as the only person who could have planted the device.
The judge criticised him for not informing the authorities that the bomb was not genuine once the alarm had been raised.
"You were present, you worked at the hospital, you had experience working in security and you knew what would happen," she added.
"You saw the harm you had caused unfold, and did nothing."
Horne was sentenced after pleading guilty in May to placing an article with intent at the hospital.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/uk-england-birmingham-13879639
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