Dubai: A worker has been jailed for three months for trespassing into a villa, molesting a sleeping teenager and writing on her bikini that he wanted to have sex with her.

In October 2013, the 27-year-old Bangladeshi worker, Z.I., was said to have sneaked into the villa in Jebel Ali at dawn and molested the 15-year-old British teenager, who was sleeping over at a friend’s house. The accused was also said to have written on the girl’s swimsuit in broken English that he wanted to sleep with her and kept a piece of paper in her handbag with a request to add him as a friend on her Facebook.

The Dubai Court of First Instance convicted Z.I. of molesting the Briton while she was asleep and entering the villa without its owner’s consent.

The defendant had pleaded not guilty.

“The accused will be deported after serving three months behind bars,” said Presiding Judge Ali Atiyyah Saad in courtroom seven on Sunday.

The teenager testified that she was sleeping over at her friends’ house. She was sleeping on a couch and woke up when she felt someone was groping her.

“I woke up around 5.30am to someone trying to untie my pyjama and touching me indecently. Immediately, I kicked him and pushed him away … when I shouted at him, he smiled at me and walked out of the bedroom quickly. I rushed to wake up my friend and in the meantime that person [the defendant] returned to the bedroom thinking that I went back to sleep. He ran away once he saw me. We chased him to the kitchen, but he disappeared. We didn’t find him outside in the front yard. When we entered the kitchen, I found the upper part of my bikini left on the kitchen table … the defendant had written on it in weak English ‘I want to have sex with you’. He also left a paper note in my handbag and wrote on it ‘please add me to your Facebook account … my name is A.K.’,” she claimed.

The parents of the Briton’s friend reported the matter to the police.

A policeman testified that the defendant was arrested sometime last year for his involvement in another case.

“A security guard at the villa complex where the incident happened said once the defendant was released from prison [in the other case] troubles resumed at the complex. Thereafter we arrested Z.I., whom the British teenager identified at the police line up. During questioning he confessed that he enjoyed groping women of different ages,” claimed the policeman.

Sunday’s ruling remains subject to appeal within 15 days.