Complex sentence: Later in his captivity, Lingan gain a reputation as a defender of prisoners rights, on one occasion defending the body of a recently deceased prisoner from guards who wanted to behead the corpse in order to make it fit into a small coffin.
Split into simpler sentences: Later in his captivity, Lingan gain a reputation as a defender of prisoners rights. On one occasion, Lingan defended the body of a recently deceased prisoner from guards who wanted to behead the corpse in order to make it fit into a small coffin.