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FOR failing to pass, she was expelled from college and went to work as a Guest Relations Officer (GRO) at a nightclub in Subang Jaya.
Having followed a course in sports science at Universiti Technology Mara (UiTM) Shah Alam for approximately two years between 1999 and 2001, Siti Rahmah Azman Subramaniam, then 22, hoped to be re-accepted by the university to continue her studies. .
She was dejected when the university ignored her appeal.
One night in January 2002, while working at the nightclub, her hopes were renewed when a UiTM speaker she knew and his friends walked into her workplace.
While she was entertaining them, Professor Bakarudin Busu, then 35, made an offer to reintegrate her into the university.
The speaker’s offer was not made out of goodwill. Siti Rahmah had to pay a price.
Bakarudin demanded sexual favors for one night in exchange for pulling the strings to bring her back to UiTM.
Over the next few days, she received calls from the professor, who pressured her to give up but she declined his offer.
Disgusted by his demands, she confided in her boyfriend Sulkarnain Alias, a 25-year-old sales executive at the time, and told him to admonish Bakarudin.
Enraged by what he had heard from his girlfriend, Sulkarnain called Bakarudin and demanded a meeting.
The speaker, who was a sports reporter for a Bahasa Malay newspaper before joining UiTM, agreed to meet with them.
On February 12, 2002, Sulkarnain gathered several friends before meeting Bakarudin at SS19, Subang Jaya at around 9:30 p.m.
What began as a civil argument turned into violence before Bakarudin was assassinated.
They beat him, cut him repeatedly with a sword, and pushed him into a monsoon drain before they set it on fire.
Sulkarnain and his friends left the scene.
He told Siti Rahmah that Bakarudin was dead.
Hours later, the victim’s body was found and the police went to work to bring the perpetrators to the search.
Within days, Siti Rahmah, Sulkarnain, and three of their friends were located and captured.
Soon after, Siti Rahmah, Sulkarnain, 24-year-old Noorman Ab Wahab forklift driver, 18-year-old Azizul Azual Jailani, and 18-year-old Muhammad Zakwan Ahmad Zaki, both university students, were charged with the murder of Bakarudin.
The following year, the murder charge against Siti Rahmah was dropped and she became a prosecution witness.
Among the witnesses summoned during the hearing was Bakarudin’s wife, Mawarni Muhamad, 36, also a UiTM professor, who had taught Siti Rahmah when she was studying at the university.
As the trial progressed, Muhammad Zakwan was also acquitted in 2007. When the High Court read the verdict two years later, Sulkarnain, his best friend Noorman and Azizul received the death penalty.
In 2015, the trio exhausted their last appeal against the sentence when the Federal Court upheld the death sentence.
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