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People are laying blame on them for offending the mountain. Because of the sentiment in this case, we want to protect their safety. He said: “I asked the court they be held in separate custody from other detainees.

He said if charged, the defence was likely to argue that the top of the mountain should not be defined as a public place where annoyance could be caused to the public.Ĭham accused local state officials of of stoking a public backlash against the tourists. He said they could face three months in prison if found guilty, or a fine, or both. Cham said they are likely to be charged with “causing annoyance by conducting obscene acts in a public place”. Hawkins was third to enter the court on Wednesday, as the group was ushered in handcuffed together and dressed in purple prison uniforms. Sabah’s indigenous Kadazan Dusun people believe the tourists’ behaviour angered the spirit of the mountain and was the reason for a 5.9-magnitude earthquake, which six days later struck near the mountain, killing 18 climbers. Officials in Sabah state, in the northern half of the island of Borneo, accused the tourists of showing “disrespect to the sacred mountain”, which at 4,095 metres is south-east Asia’s highest peak.

Kaminski was the original source of one of the photos circulating online showing the group of 10 naked on the mountain, it has been widely reported. Emil Kaminski, a 33-year-old adventure travel blogger, allegedly led the group up the mountain.ĭescribed by the New Straits Times as a “notorious Canadian nudist”, he is said to be facing charges of indecent exposure, as well as further charges of insulting local culture and people through social media postings. Malaysian authorities arrested a third Canadian in connection with the stunt on Wednesday. “The incident, obviously, was ill advised,” he said.

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The area’s MP, Ralph Goodale, said the Canadian government was trying to free the pair. The university told CTV News Regina it was monitoring the situation. He confirmed they were travelling together in Malaysia and said they rarely phone home.īoth siblings are believed to be current or former students at the University of Regina, also in Saskatchewan. The Toronto Star said their father, Floyd Petersen, only learned of their predicament when it contacted him on Saturday. Hawkins’ cellmate Danielle Petersen, 22, and her brother Lindsey, 23 are from Wood Mountain, Saskatchewan, Canada. Her duties as a riding instructor at Pompositticut Farm Day Camp in Hudson, Massachusetts, included “being a responsible role model for all children and younger members of staff at all times,” her LinkedIn profile said.įamily handout photo of Eleanor Hawkins. She worked as a barmaid in a Southampton pub while studying, as well as spending the summer of 2013 on a Camp America summer placement. She graduated last year from the University of Southampton with a masters in aerospace engineering, according to her LinkedIn profile. Hawkins was educated at the independent Ockbrook school in Ockbrook, Derbyshire, which she left with four A-levels at grade A. Ronny Cham, Hawkins’ lawyer, told the Guardian he requested the group be held separately for their own safety because of the level of public anger generated by the alleged stunt. It is not the kind of situation you envisage when your daughter goes travelling.”Įleanor Hawkins is understood to be held in a cell with Danielle Petersen. “She’s kind of relieved because she saw it coming. He also spoke of his daughter’s relief to be in the hands of the Malaysia authorities after the stunt prompted an angry backlash among the Malaysian public. Tim Hawkins told the Guardian that he spoke to his daughter on Wednesday morning: “She is obviously upset. I just hope they don’t make an example of them after the tragic earthquake.”

I have got every faith in their judicial system. Hawkins’ father, Tim, who runs his own mechanical engineering business in Derby, said: “I would like to appeal to the Malaysian authorities. The Malaysian police chief tells the press on Wednesday that if the remaining trekkers are still in the area they will be caught Guardian

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