A SEX assault victim has branded her attacker's latest jail sentence as "ridiculous and disgusting" and said he will re-offend if he is released.

Paul Black, 48, of Preston New Road, Blackburn, was given an indeterminate sentence at Preston Crown Court and will serve at least 192 days before being considered for parole.

Black carried out a sexual assault in May 2006 and was found guilty by a jury at Burnley Crown Court in March. At that trial he pleaded guilty to outraging public decency.

At his sentencing, Judge Andrew Woolman handed out a two-year prison term for sexual assault, a sentence that will run concurrently with an 18-month sentence for outraging public decency.

In light of the 11-months he has already served, Judge Woolman said he would serve 192 days, the earliest date at which he could be released.

He added that this sentence could be extended indeterminately if he was still considered a threat to the public at the time of parole.

Black has numerous convictions for violence and sexual assault and in 1992 was sentenced at Preston Crown Court to 30 months for indecently assaulting a 14-year-old girl from Blackburn.

The victim of that attack now believes the sex fiend should have received a longer sentence.

She said: "I feel so sorry for that girl and if he is let out I'll pick up the paper and read that some other poor girl has been attacked by him.

"The only way to deal with him is to castrate him.

"His character is that each time he comes to being considered for release he plays nicely and gets out, only to prey on young women once again."

In 1998 Black was given seven years at Bolton Crown Court for raping an 18-year-old girl in Rossendale.

In the latest case, the court was told how Black sat opposite his victim on a train from York to Burnley when he performed a sex act in front of her.

Black's pre-sentence psychiatric reports stressed that he was still a significant risk to the public and had constantly sought to play down the seriousness of the attacks.

Judge Woolman said: "There is a risk of you causing psychological or physical harm in the future.

"You have numerous convictions of a sexual nature and other serious ones of threatening to kill."

Paul Humphries QC, defending, said his client had shown remorse which was a major step forward.