A court official has been sentenced to four years in jail for using confidential files to help a man on trial for a car-jacking.
Maharbaan Land, 27, worked for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) at Snaresbrook Crown Court.
He passed on sensitive information to Imran Khaliq, 29, prior to his trial for kidnap, assault and theft of a car. Both men from Forest Gate, east London, were found guilty of conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
Khaliq was jailed for eight years. The case relating to the car-jacking in September 2001 was discontinued.
Land, 27, was also convicted of misconduct in a public office.
Land, who worked at Snaresbrook Crown Court, and Khaliq were convicted after an investigation by the Metropolitan Police's anti-corruption command.
Police monitored telephone and text communications between the two men over a 12-month period which frequently coincided with court hearings.
After one phone conversation, a woman claiming to be Khaliq's sister visited one of the victims saying she wanted to discuss the case. The victim refused and told police.
Undercover officers then informed Land there was a video cassette crucial to the case against Khaliq.
It was mentioned during a court hearing by his defence team, which knew nothing of the conspiracy.
In fact, the video never existed but police maintain only Land could have passed on information about the cassette to Khaliq.
Det Supt Richard Smith said: "Maharbaan Land worked for the Crown Prosecution Service in a position of trust - he betrayed that trust and conspired with Khaliq to undermine the administration of justice.
"Their conspiracy meant that victims of crime were denied a chance for their faith in the criminal justice system to be rewarded - I hope today's verdicts go some way to addressing this."
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