23 Year Old UK Woman Facing 3 Months In Jail For Causing Earthquake With Her N3kedness Appears In Court Today (Photos)

Metro UK reports, A British woman who is facing prison time for getting naked with friends on top of a sacred mountain in Malaysia, upsetting guardians of the mountain and causing an earthquake on the mountain a week later that killed 18 people on Friday, June 5. She appeared today with others arrested at Kota Kinabalu Magistrates'.

Eleanor Hawkins is being held with four other Westerners for indecent behavior. The five face possible prison sentences.

They are believed to be part of a group of 10 people who stripped naked before taking photos at the peak of Mount Kinabalu on May 30 – an act which a senior minister in Malaysia has blamed for causing an earthquake that killed 18 climbers last week.

Miss Hawkins, a 23-year-old Southampton University graduate from Derby, was detained on Tuesday at Tawau airport as she was flying from the island of Borneo to the capital, Kuala Lumpur.

Pictured in black top

Mr Hawkins, who runs a mechanical engineering business, said his daughter is ‘obviously in the photos’ but he did not want the situation to be ‘blown out of all proportion’.

‘It’s fair enough to charge for the misdemeanor committed,’ he said. ‘What we don’t want is her lumbered with further charges.’

After a 5.9 magnitude earthquake hit the 13,400ft-high mountain on Friday, Sabah deputy chief minister Joseph Pairin Kitingan blamed the tragedy on the tourists for showing ‘disrespect to the sacred mountain’ by posing naked at the peak.

He has said a special ritual will be conducted to ‘appease the mountain spirit’ after 18 people were killed in the disaster. Prosecutors say their offense carry a fine or 3-months in the notorious Kota Kinabalu hellhole prison in Borneo.