In cuffs but on her way home: British backpacker Eleanor Hawkins to be freed TODAY after being sentenced to three days in Malaysian jail and fined £850 for stripping naked on a sacred mountain
A British woman blamed for triggering an earthquake by posing naked on a sacred mountain wept as she heard she will spend another night in prison because paperwork for her release was not signed on time. Eleanor Hawkins, 23, was set to walk free today after being sentenced to three days in prison and given a £850 fine. She is among a group of four Western backpackers arrested after photos emerged of them stripping naked on Mount Kinabalu in Malaysia. Although the former public school head girl was sentenced to three days in jail, she was expected to be released immediately as she has been held in police custody since Tuesday. Miss Hawkins' fine has already been paid in full by her lawyer, who rushed to an ATM outside the court upon hearing the sentence in order to secure all four of his clients' immediate release. She had expected to be released to spend the night in a five-star hotel before being deported to Britain today. A police source told the Te...