Tengku Ampuan of Pahang Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah has urged against bullying, citing the outcome of navy cadet Zulfarhan Osman Zulkarnain’s murder case.

Speaking at an event held at Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia (UIAM) yesterday, Tunku Azizah advised students to take heed of what happened to Zulfarhan seven years ago.

“It’s pointless to attend university and then end up on death row because you didn’t think that what you did could destroy your own life.

“So, I hope everyone doesn’t act that way. Treat everyone here like they are your siblings.

“I’m offering my advice to you like how a mother would advise her children,” she said.

On Tuesday, Malaysiakini reported that six former Universiti Pertahanan Nasional Malaysia (UPNM) students were sentenced to death over the murder Zulfarhan seven years ago.

A three-person Court of Appeal bench unanimously found the six ex-students guilty of murder, setting aside their initial conviction for the offence of causing death with no intent to kill.

The six were Muhammad Akmal Zuhairi Azmal, Muhammad Azamuddin Mad Sofi, Muhammad Najib Mohd Razi, Muhammad Afif Najmudin Azahat, Mohamad Shobirin Sabri, and Abdoul Hakeem Mohd Ali.

The bench chaired by Hadhariah Syed Ismail ruled that the initial 18-year jail sentence was insufficient due to the viciousness of the crime.

Navy cadet Zulfarhan Osman Zulkarnain

On June 1, 2017 at Serdang Hospital, Zulfarhan died of injuries from 90 instances of steam ironing, which left scalding burns on 80 percent of his body.

The 21-year-old was allegedly subjected to multiple assaults over his refusal to confess to stealing a laptop of one of the six ex-students, at the public university’s dorm in Kuala Lumpur between May 21 and 22 that year.

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