February 29th 2024.
Recently, there was a shocking incident involving a prison officer at one of the UK's most notorious prisons, Belmarsh. The officer, Wiktoria Bujko, was caught fabricating a false confession that ultimately led to derailing a murder trial. It was discovered that she had been offered gifts and money by Mohamed Ali's family as an incentive to disrupt the trial.
Bujko had reported a fake confession made by suspect Aaron Campbell while he was on remand at Belmarsh for the shooting of Iron Miah. She claimed that Campbell had confessed to planning a robbery with his co-defendant, Mohamed Moshaer Ali, on the day of the murder. However, it was later revealed that Bujko had been bribed by Ali with money, gifts, and promises of a car in exchange for her false statement.
This deceitful act by Bujko took place in October 2022, just as the retrial for the murder was about to begin. She was eventually caught and arrested two months later. It was discovered that she had overheard a conversation between Campbell and another inmate in the healthcare unit at HMP Belmarsh, but CCTV footage proved that Campbell was not present at the time.
During the trial at the Old Bailey, it was revealed that Ali had convinced Bujko to make a false representation to the police in order to collapse the trial in which he was facing a murder charge. According to the prosecutor, Ali had shown himself to be an "outrageous liar" and had put Bujko up to creating a completely false confession.
Bujko and Ali had known each other since Ali's first remand at HMP Thameside, where Bujko worked at the time. She had confided in a probation worker that she felt more supported by prisoners than her colleagues and that she felt vulnerable. The two had been in contact via text messages, and Ali had even promised her a car while his relatives took her out for meals and supplied her with drugs.
Both Bujko and Ali pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice. During sentencing, the judge condemned their actions, stating that they had "embarked on a brazen plan to disrupt the second trial" and that Bujko was willing to lie under oath. He also revealed that they had been in a corrupt and dishonest relationship, with money, gifts, and a car being exchanged between them and their friends and relatives.
Bujko's barrister expressed her remorse, stating that she was "genuinely sorry" and had experienced a "demolishing fall from grace." As a former prison officer, she had been utterly disgraced by her actions. Bujko is likely to be deported to her home country of Poland after serving her four-year and eight-month prison sentence.
The murder trial involved Ali, Campbell, and co-defendant Antonio Afflick-McLeod, who were found guilty of carrying out the "brutal execution" of father-of-two Mr. Miah in East London in November 2019. Ali was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 36 years, while Campbell and Afflick-McLeod are awaiting their sentences. It was a tragic event that left Mr. Miah's family devastated, as he was found dying in the street outside his home just months after being released from prison.
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