The British backpacker jailed for stripping on a sacred Malaysian mountain has apologised for causing offence.
"I know my behaviour was foolish and I know how much offence we all caused to the local people of Sabah. For that, I am truly sorry," she said.
She said: "I just want to say how relieved and happy I am to finally be home.
A British woman convicted for stripping on a sacred Malaysian mountain has returned to the UK.
Backpacker Eleanor Hawkins, who pleaded guilty to a public nuisance offence, arrived at Heathrow Airport early on Sunday morning having been deported from Malaysia.
At a court hearing in Kota Kinabalu on Friday she was fined 5,000 Malaysian ringgit (£859) and sentenced to three days in jail, which she had already served.
Miss Hawkins was arrested with three other backpackers earlier this week for posing naked on the mountainside, after being blamed by locals for causing an earthquake which killed 18 people.
The father of a British woman arrested with four others after stripping naked on a sacred mountain in Malaysia has spoken to his daughter
A British woman has been arrested in Malaysia for allegedly stripping naked on top of a mountain - an act locals say caused an earthquake.