14 years and 18 strokes is way too harsh for a mildly-retarded person for smelling arm-pits. He'll be better off in a mental institution rather than prison. I have heard of murderers who got lighter sentences than that. Sometimes its so hard to understand the judgements meeted out.
I remember a case of a driver who drove without a license, knocked down an old lady, hit and run, but was later caught or surrendered. I believe he was sentenced to less than 5 years in prison. By the way the old lady did not survive the accident.
In a case of extreme cruelty, a foreign male national stabb his fellow female citizen here in Singapore in broad daylight. He was sentenced to eight months jail and four strokes of the cane only. The lady survived, but she was stabbed so viciously and repeatedly numerous times that no one, but a lone brave old uncle stepped in to help the lady. Well that could be another story of its own.
In this case perpetrator was mentally unsound, no weapons were used, except his offending nose and maybe some restraining of the victim, he gets nearly the maximum number of strokes that can be given to a person and 14 year stay in Changi Condo, where he might probably suffer humiliation, instead of receiving treatment for his unsound mind. Sheesh! :what: