And the victim’s family have hit out at the sentence branding it “shocking”.

Stuart Cuthbertson pounced on the woman at his home in Paisley – while his fiancee celebrated her birthday.

Six months before he had attacked another woman, at a home in Renfrewshire.

He went on trial over the attacks at the High Court in Paisley, accused of sexual assault and attempted rape.

The chef admitted the first sex attack and the Crown accepted a reduced charge of sexual assault to the second charge – after his second victim bravely took to the stand to give evidence against him.

And yesterday the girl’s stepdad – who can’t be named for legal reasons – blasted the judge who sentenced Cuthbertson at the High Court in Edinburgh last Thursday.

He said: “We don’t know who we are more disgusted with – the judge or Cuthbertson.

“It’s shocking.” The distraught stepdad hit out after Lord Brailsford placed Cuthbertson on a three-year community payback order which will see him supervised by social workers for the next 36 months.

Most payback orders force the criminal concerned to carry out unpaid work within the community – but Cuthbertson’s CPO only requires him to be supervised.

The victim’s stepdad raged: “For a young girl to go the police, go to court to give evidence and not get justice, it’s shocking.” And he said he is now concerned his stepdaughter’s case would have a detrimental effect on other woman who are sexually assaulted going to the police.

He explained: “I’m worried this will stop other women coming forward, especially with all the attacks in Glasgow just now.” Cuthbertson was working as a chef at TGI Friday’s at Braehead’s then Xscape complex when he carried out the attacks.

The first, in November 2012, was at a property in Renfrew.

He pulled up her top and stared at her breasts after she fell asleep on a couch.

She woke up during the assault – but didn’t say anything until the after the second incident.

The next attack happened six months later, in April 2013, in front of a handful of his friends.

The 23-year-old inappopriately touched the young woman in the bedroom of the flat he shared with his fiancee, while pals lay sleeping in the room.

He pulled back covers she was lying under, pulled down her leggings and pants and sexually assaulted her.

The attack woke her and several others were awoken by her screams.

Her stepdad said: “She’s trying to put it behind her now and move on – she just wants to forget about the whole thing.”