A mother has been convicted of killing her 13-year-old daughter’s boyfriend — and then trying to set up the girl to take the blame.
Gedu Bibi, 47, lured 21-year-old hospital worker Sumon Miah to her home after being shown topless photos he had taken of the teenager. He was hit on the head with a table leg and fell into a coma from which he never recovered.
Mr Miah died from brain damage nine days later, in October 2006. Bibi persuaded her daughter Shuhina Khanam to tell police she had hit the victim in self defence after he turned up with a knife. Her 12-year-old son Fhalak also backed up the story.
Detectives shut down their investigation in 2008 but fresh information emerged two years later which led to Bibi and her former lover, 48-year-old café owner Lilu Miah, being charged with murder.
After a trial at the Old Bailey, jurors cleared Bibi of murder but convicted her of manslaughter and perverting the course of justice. She will be sentenced at a later date. Lilu Miah was cleared of both murder and manslaughter.
Bibi, who claimed she was asleep at the time, had suggested that her husband Angur Miah was involved.
The court heard Sumon Miah and Shuhina started a relationship after meeting at the hospital where he worked as a porter. Days before the attack, Lilu Miah had shown Bibi four topless photos of Shuhina he had found on the internet.
Sumon was invited into Bibi’s home in Walthamstow. After being knocked out with the table leg, the weapon was wiped clean and then put into Shuhina’s hands to ensure it held her fingerprints. No blood or hairs were found on the weapon, and only her prints were found on the knife she claimed Mr Miah had threatened her with.
Following the victim’s death, a friend handed his camera phone to the police — with the topless pictures still in its memory.
During the trial, it emerged Lilu Miah’s teenage daughter had told police her father had “got away with murder” — but officers ignored the tip because the file had been closed.
Prosecutor Crispin Aylett QC said Bibi had concocted a story that allowed her and the killer or killers to cheat justice for years.
