A Lanarkshire woman preyed on by a sleazy postmaster has hit out after he was given a chance to change his ways.
The East Kilbride Village Post Office customer previously told Lanarkshire Live she put herself through the trauma of a court trial to prevent Kevin McDaid from preying on other women.
McDaid was found guilty of threatening or abusive behaviour after asking the woman if he could kiss her and feel her breasts on September 30 last year.
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But the married 36-year-old, who kept his job at the Post Office run by his father, had his sentence deferred for six months at Hamilton Sheriff Court for good behaviour.
Hitting out over Friday's outcome, his victim told Lanarkshire Live : "I'm absolutely shocked - a slap on the wrist is horrific.
"I don't feel justice has been served to him. He will reoffend, if not in a worse manner next time.
"I'm moving on from this. I've done my part, I know I brought a monster to justice and he has been seen for what he really is.
"What happens now is out my hands.
"I did my best to protect myself, my family and the public from him."
McDaid, of Laurel Street, Cambuslang, propositioned the woman after telling her about a stag weekend "challenge".
When he saw her waiting in a queue at the counter he brought her into the storeroom in order to process documents for her.
The court heard in September that he had known the woman for some years - she sobbed as she relived the incident.
She told Claire Rowan, prosecuting, that McDaid said he had "something embarrassing" to ask her.
McDaid then told her he was going to a stag do and they had three things to do - kiss someone, grab someone's breasts and get a pair of pants from someone.
He asked if they could kiss each other with the woman responding "absolutely not," adding that they were both married and it was not appropriate.
He said "okay" and then asked if he could feel her breasts, adding "just a wee five-second grab" and then asked what pants she was wearing.
The woman also alleged that McDaid told her as she left the room, "I would have grabbed your t**s if you'd let me".
The court heard that McDaid apologised for his behaviour in a series of Facebook messages, telling her, "I did not mean for you to be upset. I'm an idiot. I feel bad and I truly am sorry."
Giving evidence, McDaid claimed the woman had made up the allegations.
Commenting on the trauma of being put through a trial, the woman said previously: "I could not have lived with myself had other more vulnerable woman been subjected to such predatory behaviour.
"Going through trial was terrifying but I stood up for what was right and I knew I had to bring him to justice.
"I have never been so scared and taken aback in my life, and had never been subjected to such predatory behaviour.
"I feared for other woman and did not want them to go through what I had just been through."
She added: "I have been left traumatised by these events.
"I was horrified that Kevin and the position he was in - being a postmaster - treated me, a member of the public, in such a humiliating and demeaning way."
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