A TEENAGE sex predator who abused a Good Samaritan in a dead-end street after she gave him a lift in her car has been jailed.

Kyle Laing was locked up at Paisley Sheriff Court for attacking the woman the day after Valentine’s Day after she picked him up in Paisley’s Love Street.

Once in the vehicle Laing, who used to live at Kibble in the town, directed her in to a dead end – then struck.

Two months later he struck again, forcing himself on a woman and groping her in the town’s Springbank Road.

Laing, 19, admitted his guilt over the February and April 2016 sex assaults last month.

He struck a deal with prosecutors which saw charges he also sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl in the town’s Gauze Street in March 2016 dropped.

Sentence was deferred for background reports and Laing returned to the dock on Tuesday to be sentenced.

Advocate Paul Nelson said Laing was a troubled individual, and that both he and society would benefit from him being spared prison.

He explained: “When on a short leash he engages and keeps out of trouble, but when on a long leash he has enough rope and he hangs himself.

“There are steps in place, hopefully, to prevent a recurrence.

“He has some growing up to do – that is not helped by his intellectual level – and it’s something he needs help with but hopefully can achieve.”

After hearing Laing had been handed a jail sentence at Dundee Sheriff Court on Monday for a similar offence, Sheriff Tom McCartney ruled there was only one way he could deal with Laing.

He jailed him for 18 months for the offences and told him he will be monitored for five years once released from custody.

Laing was in the dock just 24 hours after receiving a sentence of four years and nine months at Dundee Sheriff Court.

In the Dundee case he posed as a woman called Iona and set up a meeting with his victim, who was advertising clothes for sale.

When she arrived, he grabbed her and sexually assaulted her.