KUALA LUMPUR: "After close to eight years, this is the first time I am seeing this letter again."
That was the posting of Muhammad Aiman Aufa Asmadi Affendi, referring to the poison pen letter he had written in 2017, asking his university's top management to save Zulfarhan Osman Zulkarnain from abuse and beatings.
In a posting on his Instagram stories, Aiman Aufa said he had never seen the letter again after he slipped it in front of Rumah Sakit Angkatan Tentera (Tuanku Mizan Military Hospital).
"After I put it, (I have) not seen it anymore until now.
"(I) do not even though know how this became public.
"Whatever it is, Al-Fatihah to the family of the deceased.
"We as humans, we can only try to make an effort but Allah decides it all. Al Fatihah."
The hand written letter in capital letters said," If (you) have the heart and sense of humanity, I beg you to ambush room 4-10 Blok Satria. In there, someone sick really needs immediate treatment. Immediately!!!."
The letter referred to the room where the severely abused Zulfarhan was placed in.
During the 2018 trial, Aiman Aufa testified that if he knew that Zulfarhan would die, he would have sent him to the hospital.
He said he had sent the letter after seeing Zulfarhan lying on a bed with his body covered with blisters and blackish patches in a hostel room at the National Defence University.(UPNM)
Aiman Aufa said that he had placed the first letter on the fence of the hospital on May 23,2017 and the second was slipped under the door of a trainer's room the next day.
Aiman Aufa, who was then a third year civil engineering student, said he sent the letter because he was afraid his identify would be known.
Zulfarhan, the university's navy cadet, died on June 1, 2017 from severe burn wounds covering 80 per cent of his body after he was repeatedly pressed with a hot steam iron and beaten up over an alleged laptop theft claim.
He died 10 days after he was tortured on May 21 and 22.
Up to his death, Zulfarhan did not admit to taking his university mate, Muhammad Akmal Zuhairi Azmal's laptop.
Zulfarhan had 90 burn wounds on the front and back of his body, both his hands and legs as well as his private parts which covered about 80 per cent of his body surface.
On Tuesday, the Court of Appeal sentenced six former UPNM cadets, including Akmal Zuhairi, to death for the murder Zulfarhan in a case described as the "rarest of the rare".
The others apart from Akmal Zuhairi are Muhammad Azamuddin Mad Sofi, Muhammad Najib Mohd Razi, Muhammad Afif Najmudin Azahat, Mohamad Shobirin and Abdoul Hakeem Mohd Ali, who are now 28 years old.
A three-member bench comprising Datuk Hadhariah Syed Ismail, Mohamed Zaini Mazlan and Datuk Azmi Ariffin unanimously allowed the prosecution's appeal to reinstate a charge under Section 302 of the Penal Code and impose the death penalty.