Johnstone teenager Kieran Rodger advertised on online sales site Gumtree that he had tickets to see the American band at Bellahouston Park last year.

On the day of the gig, August 19 last year, he met up with a 15-year-old, who can’t be named for legal reasons, and took £70 off the child before fleeing without handing any tickets over.

He also stole £190 after targeting three women as they withdrew cash from ATMs in Paisley and appeared at the town’s sheriff court on Tuesday to be sentenced for the offences.

Bob Mitchell, defending, said that although Rodger, of Johnstone’s Teviot Terrace, “comes from a very good family background” he had fallen into drug addiction.

Mitchell said that Rodger’s addiction became so bad that his mother, a nurse at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, had reported him to the police.

He told the court that Rodger’s life had been “blighted by drug addiction” and said he had been abducted by gangsters he owed money for drugs to.

He told Sheriff Seith Ireland that, in order to pay off his drug debts, Rodger had duped the schoolboy and robbed the women.

The lawyer asked Sheriff Ireland not to lock his client up, adding: “He knows where he’ll end up if he doesn’t change his ways.” After hearing that Rodger had been on remand for the offences since December 18, Sheriff Ireland decided to give Rodger a chance.

He placed him on a Community Payback Order, telling him to complete 165 hours’ unpaid work over the next 12 months.

He also told him he will be supervised by social workers for the next 18 months and has to attend drug counselling.

As he did so, the sheriff warned: “This is not a get out of jail card forever — it’s only a temporary get out of jail card.” Rodger had met the child outside the Wallace Bar in Renfrew, near Glasgow, and lead him to a secluded lane in the burgh town.

The 18-year-old then made off with the child’s money without giving him the tickets.

In one week in December last year he then robbed three women as they made withdrawals from cash machines in Paisley.

He first struck at a cash machine outside the Bank of Scotland in Paisley’s Gilmour Street on December 13, making off with £80.

The following day, December 14, he managed to get another £100 by targeting a woman at an ATM outside Tesco in Renfrew’s Newmains Road.

After the second theft police appealed to the public to try and catch Rodger but he struck again.

He stole £10 from a woman at the same cash machine in Paisley where he had first struck.

Rodger dodged a stint behind bars in 2013 over a £1,500 valium haul he was caught with when he was aged just 15.