A court in Abu Dhabi emirate has ordered the deportation of an Asian expatriate after serving three months in prison for trying to rape an Ethiopian housemaid, the semi official daily Alittiahd reported on Wednesday. The defendant told the court in Aldhafra he mistook the maid’s actions for an invitation to have sex with her, the paper said. He said that he asked the maid to hand him a screwdriver while helping her in moving a bed inside the house in the absence of the employers. “He said she tried to pass the screwdriver over his shoulders in a way that he thought she was trying to seduce him…so he caught her body and started to caress her,” the paper said. The defendant had earlier been sentenced by a court to six months in jail and deportation but an appeal court reduced the verdict to three months. He will be expelled after serving his jail term.