On 16 February 2002, Azizul Azual bin Mohamad Jailani was charged with one count of murder under Section 302 of the Penal Code for the murder of Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) lecturer Bakarudin Busu on 12 February 2002. Azizul Azual bin Mohamad Jailani, alongside two other persons, inflicted physical harm towards Bakarudin by kicking, punching and slashing, before burning his corpse and dumping his remains in a drain. On 17 December 2009, the High Court of Shah Alam found Azizul guilty of the murder of Bakarudin and was sentenced to mandatory death. The Court of Appeal and Federal Court rejected his appeal on 20 February 2012 and 23 February 2015 respectively. Consequently, his conviction was upheld, and the mandatory death sentence was affirmed.

The Revision of Sentence of Death and Imprisonment for Natural Life (Temporary Jurisdiction of The Federal Court) Act 2023 was introduced and took effect on 12 September 2023 to confer the Federal Court the jurisdiction to undertake the resentencing of the prisoners who have been sentenced to death or being imprisoned for natural life. An application for resentencing was filed in the federal court on behalf of Azizul.

On 2 April 2024, the Federal Court took into account the individualised mitigating circumstances of the applicant including the fact that the Applicant was 18 years and 2 months old at the time of his arrest and he was a first-time offender. The Federal Court accepts the principle that the court shall consider the applicant’s youth and also the fact he was a first-time offender. The applicant’s death sentence was commuted, and he was sentenced to 38 years of imprisonment from the date of arrest and 12 strokes of whipping.