Pictured moments after her arrest, the British head girl facing three months in prison for stripping naked on a Malaysian mountain and 'angering spirits'
The British backpacker arrested in Malaysia for stripping naked on top of a mountain and causing a deadly earthquake has been named as Eleanor Hawkins. The former public school head girl is among five Western tourists accused of 'upsetting the gods' by posing nude on the country's highest peak days before an earthquake killed 18 climbers on the mountain. Eleanor, 24, from Derby, was detained at a Sabah airport yesterday while trying to fly to Kuala Lumpur. The aerospace engineering student is said to be 'very upset' as she sits in a police cell in Borneo facing obscenity charges, which can carry a three-month prison sentence. Her father, Tim Hawkins, who runs an engineering business in Derby, said his daughter sounded frightened when he spoke to her this morning. He said: 'She is obviously upset. She's pretty scared. But it was good to speak to her.' It could be Friday or next Monday. But she is holding up OK. I have to talk to...