January 17th 2024.
According to reports, Wiktoria Bujko, a 30-year-old prison officer, has been accused of accepting gifts and money from inmates. The court heard that she had received these bribes in exchange for lying for an accused murderer. Bujko pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice by reporting a false confession from one of the three men on trial for the murder of Iron Miah.
Miah, a 40-year-old man, was fatally shot on November 19, 2019, at his doorstep in east London. He passed away two days later in the hospital. The accused murderers, Mohammed Moshaer Ali, Antonio Afflick-McLeod, and Aaron Campbell, were found guilty of his murder on January 9, 2023, after a lengthy trial at the Old Bailey. Bujko's guilty plea was revealed after Judge Nigel Lickley KC lifted a ban prior to the sentencing of the defendants.
It was disclosed that in a previous trial, Bujko had come forward with a fabricated account to the police, which resulted in the trial being aborted. She will now be sentenced alongside the three convicted murderers. It was also revealed that one of the inmates involved was Aaron Campbell, who had allegedly confessed to the murder. The prosecutor, Crispin Aylett KC, stated that Ali had urged Bujko to provide a false testimony about Campbell's confession and had rewarded her with money, gifts, and promises. Ali was described as a chronic liar by Mr. Aylett.
At the time of the incident, Bujko was employed at the high-security HMP Belmarsh in south-east London, where the three defendants were being held. In October 2022, just before a retrial was scheduled to begin, Bujko made a statement claiming to have overheard a conversation between Campbell and another inmate at the prison healthcare unit. It was also revealed that a day after submitting her witness statement, someone had deposited £500 into Bujko's bank account.
Her statement suggested that Campbell and Afflick-McLeod had planned to rob Ali of drugs, but instead encountered Mr. Miah who had been sent by Ali to a meeting in his place. However, an examination of the CCTV footage from the unit proved that Campbell was not present during the alleged exchange. The jury was also informed that Bujko had known Ali since he was first remanded to HMP Thameside, where she had been working. She had even applied to become a probation officer while out on bail, but her employment was terminated after just one day as a trainee in February 2023.
Both Bujko and Ali pleaded guilty to conspiring to pervert the course of justice. The sentencing for all the defendants has been scheduled for February 28 at the Old Bailey.
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