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.
Eleanor Hawkins, the British backpacker who was jailed for stripping on a sacred Malaysian mountain, has said in a statement on her return to the UK: "I just want to say how relieved and happy I am to finally be home. 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."
Backpacker and university graduate Eleanor Hawkins, 23, appeared tearful as she read a statement outside her family home in Draycott, Derbyshire.
Her mother Ruth said: "She knows what she did was wrong and disrespectful and she is deeply sorry for any offence caused to the people of Sabah and she has been appropriately and fairly judged by the Malaysian authorities and has served her sentence in full, the case is now closed."
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.