Dog owner fined £600 after girl had tip of nose bitten off
SpindriftA dog owner has been fined £600 after a nine-year-old girl had the tip of her nose bitten off in an attack by a Staffordshire Bull Terrier.
Callum Campbell's dog pounced on the girl at his mother's home in Maryhill, Glasgow, on 16 June 2022.
The girl was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital where skin was removed from behind her ear to rebuild her nose.
Campbell, 24 was found guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court being of having a dog that was dangerously out of control.
The court was told that the girl and her mother had been visiting Campbell's mother at the property.
Campbell entered the kitchen and the dog appeared at the doorway to the living room.
The woman told the court "before she knew it" the dog was on top of her and her daughter.
She said: "My wee girl got pulled to the floor from the chair right along the living room floor."
She said the girl initially did not move when she was on the ground adding: "I was wondering if she was alive."
The girl was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, where she received an operation and was kept in for four nights.
She was given counselling to help with her fear of dogs and has been left with a scar on her nose.
The mother said Campbell claimed that it was not his dog that had carried out the attack.
Michael Tierney, defending, put it to the witness that she misheard him, but she denied this.
Sheriff Mary Shields fined Campbell £600 and issued an ankle tag for four weeks, keeping him indoors between 07:00 and 19:00.