Eleanor Hawkins is among a group of backpackers arrested after photos emerged of them allegedly stripping naked on Mount Kinabalu
A British woman charged for posing naked on a sacred Malaysian mountain as pleaded guilty to a public nuisance offence, it has been reported.
Backpacker Eleanor Hawkins, 23, admitted the offence during an appearance at Kota Kinabalu Magistrates’ Court in Malaysia.
She was among a group of Western backpackers arrested after photos emerged of them stripping naked on Mount Kinabalu.
Hawkins could find out today if she will be jailed for up three months for the offence.
An aeronautical engineering graduate from Derby, she was arrested at Tawau airport on Tuesday as she was flying from the island of Borneo to the capital, Kuala Lumpur.
Speaking after the case, her father Timothy Hawkins said: “We have not had contact with the lawyer yet, so we don’t know the precise details of what happened.”
He declined to comment on whether he saw television footage of his daughter, her face covered, being ushered into the court building by guards at around 8am UK time.
British woman pleads guilty after posing naked on Malaysian mountain
