A British woman blamed for triggering an earthquake by posing naked on a sacred mountain will walk free today after being sentenced to three days in prison and given an £850 fine.
Eleanor Hawkins, 23, is among a group of 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 is expected to be released immediately as she has been held in police custody since Tuesday.
Earlier this morning the aeronautical engineering graduate from Derby pleaded guilty to a public nuisance offence - a crime that theoretically could have carried a punishment of three-months in the notorious Kota Kinabalu hellhole prison in Borneo.
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