British backpacker 'sorry' for topless photo on sacred mountain
The group of foreign tourists strip down on Mount Kinabalu in Borneo. (Supplied) Supplied
A backpacker deported from Malaysia after pleading guilty to taking nude photos on a sacred mountain says she is "truly sorry" on her return home to Britain.
Eleanor Hawkins, 23, was one of four tourists charged in Malaysia after removing their clothes and posing for a photograph on Mount Kinabalu.
"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 in a statement outside her house in Draycott, central England.
She landed at London's Heathrow Airport on Sunday morning.
Her mother Ruth said: "She knows what she did was wrong and disrespectful and... she has been appropriately and fairly judged by the Malaysian authorities and has served her sentence in full."
Hawkins was arrested in the wake of a deadly June 5 quake which killed 18 people on Mount Kinabalu in Sabah state.
The four tourists were fined 5,000 Malaysian ringgit ($A1,714) by a local court on Friday and sentenced to three days' jail time starting from when they were arrested on Tuesday, meaning their term had been served.
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