Wiktoria Bujko was offered gifts and money by Mohamed Ali’s family to derail a murder trial (Picture: Metropolitan Police)
A prison officer at one of the UK’s most notorious prisons has been jailed for inventing a false confession and derailing a murder trial.
Wiktoria Bujko reported the fake confession by suspect Aaron Campbell while he was on remand at Belmarsh for the shooting of Iron Miah.
30-year-old Bujko made the false claim for Campbell’s co-defendant Mohamed Moshaer Ali who bribed her with ‘money, gifts and promises’.
She was given £500 and was promised a car after she handed over her fake witness statement to the police.
Bujko made her false report in October 2022, just as a retrial into the murder was about to begin, and she was found out and arrested two months later.
She claimed she overheard a conversation in HMP Belmarsh’s healthcare unit between Campbell and another inmate, suggesting he and Antonio Afflick-McLeod, 32, planned to rob Ali of drugs on the day of the killing.
Bujko may be deported back to Poland after serving her sentence (Picture: LinkedIn)
Mohammed Ali convinced Wiktoria Bujko to make a false representation to police, collapsing the trial in which he was facing a murder charge (Picture: Metropolitan Police)
But CCTV footage of the unit revealed Campbell wasn’t there when she claimed to have witnessed the exchange.
Ali put Bujko up to creating an ‘entirely false account of a confession by Campbell’ and shown himself to be an ‘outrageous liar,’ said Crispin Aylett, KC, prosecuting, during the trial at the Old Bailey.
Bujko had known Ali since he was first remanded to HMP Thameside, where she worked at the time. She told a probation worker that prisoners were more supportive of her than her colleagues and she ‘felt vulnerable.’
The pair had been texting while Ali was in prison and he had promised her a car while his relatives took her out for meals and supplied her with drugs.
In a message to a friend she said: ‘I got several things gifted from him, I’m not gonna lie. He’ll be out for Christmas.’
Bujko and Ali admitted perverting the course of justice.
During sentencing, Judge Nigel Lickley told them: ‘You both embarked on a brazen plan to disrupt the second trial in this matter by producing a false prison report implicating Antonio Afflick-McLeod in murder and exonerating you, Mohamed Ali.
‘Thankfully as a result of requests made by the defence team to investigate it became clear the two of you concocted a plan to disrupt that trial and bring about a positive result for Mohamed Ali.
‘As a result that trial had to be abandoned resulting in great public expense and the trial delayed by a further year.
‘You Wiktoria were prepared to come into court and lie on oath.
‘You knew each other as prisoner and prison officer at HMP Belmarsh and had both been at HMP Thameside before.
‘You had been in a corrupt and dishonest relationship, money had been sent, gifts given and a car promised to Wiktoria Bujko.
‘Friends and relatives had taken Wiktoria out for meals and supplied her with drugs.’
Bujko falsified a confession from suspect Aaron Campbell (Picture: Central News/Met Police)
Antonio Afflick-McLeod was also implicated within the false confession (Picture: Central News/Met Police)
Bujko’s barrister Abigail Bright said: ‘She is sorry. She genuinely really and truly is sorry.
‘She has felt this absolute and demolishing fall from grace as especially hard to bear.
‘As a former prison officer, now utterly disgraced, her fall could not have been any harder.’
Bujko is likely to be deported to her home country of Poland at the end of her four year and eight month prison sentence.
Ali, Campbell, and Afflick-McLeod carried out the ‘brutal execution’ of father-of-two Mr Miah in east London on November 19, 2019.
Ali was jailed for life with a minimum term of 36 years, while Campbell and Afflick-McLeod are set to be sentenced this afternoon.
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Mr Miah was found dying in the street outside his home in Whitechapel just months after he was released from prison.
He was taken to hospital after the hit but he had suffered an unrecoverable brain injury and he was removed from life support two days later.
Ali, Campbell and Afflick-McLeod denied murder but were convicted by an Old Bailey jury after their third trial.
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