SERIAL SEX ATTACKER IS SPARED JAIL TERM

Sheriff gives fiend community service and says prison won't help his victims

- MICHAEL McQUAID

A SEXUAL predator who targeted five women has walked free after being told a prison sentence wouldn’t help the victims or society.

Steven Puttock was instead put under social work supervision and must pay each of his victims £500 compensation.

A court heard that Puttock’s attacks took place over a 14-month period and all the women “were friends and like family” to him.

Two were assaulted after he sneaked into their bedrooms as they slept, lay beside them and touched them inappropriately.

Puttock, 25, of Kilsyth, Stirlingshire, admitted assaulting the women at houses in Cumbernauld and Ki lsyth between January 2020 and March 2021.