Footage of Kenan Basic helping Caitlin Gray with her broken down car. Photo / Supplied
Sydney dad Kenan Basic was only trying to help a teenage girl with her car — but his good Samaritan act landed him in a maximum-security jail for two weeks.
Caitlyn Gray, 19 at the time of the offence, appeared in Bankstown Local Court today where she pleaded guilty to lying about the horrific ordeal.
She had claimed to police she was stalked and indecently assaulted by Basic on November 22.
The teenager sat with her mum in court today, appearing downcast and with tears in her eyes as her lawyer Mohammed Suliman asked for the case to be adjourned until next month to give him enough time to obtain a psychological report.
Magistrate Glenn Walsh adjourned the case to June 25 where Gray will be sentenced on one count of knowingly making a false or misleading statement.
Outside court, Gray didn't say a word, covering her face with her denim jacket as she walked down the main street of Bankstown.
Basic, 36, was fired from his job and is now going through a divorce after the now 20-year-old told police a horrific and completely made-up story about what he did to her.
All charges against Basic were dropped last Monday after the 20-year-old broke down when pressed by detectives and admitted she'd made it all up.
She instead lied and said he had followed her to pursue her.
"She pushed him as hard as he could, he stumbled backwards" and then put his left hand towards her genitals, Magistrate Truscott told the court in November.
Basic, a Bosnian refugee whose father had been killed in the country's civil war, had a pensioner mother who relied on him that he was unable to help while in jail.