In a shocking incident, a man’s dog savagely bit off a young girl’s nose, leading to a court ordering him to cough up £600 in compensation.
The brutal attack happened when Callum Campbell’s Staffordshire Bull Terrier, Boston, pounced on the nine year old at his mum’s place in Maryhill, Glasgow, on June 16, 2022. The vicious mutt leapt at the lass, yanked her from her seat and hauled her across the living room floor.
The girl’s mum was petrified, initially fearing her daughter had copped it as she lay motionless post-attack. The poor kid was rushed to hospital, where docs crafted a “new nose” using skin from her ear. Despite the horror, 24 year old Campbell claimed his pooch wasn’t the culprit.
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The girl, who was gearing up for a dance contest just two days later, ended up spending four nights in hospital, reports the Mirror. Campbell got slapped with a guilty verdict at Glasgow Sheriff Court for having a dangerously out of control doggo. Come Wednesday, Sheriff Mary Shields slapped Campbell with a curfew, keeping him holed up at home from 7pm to 7am for four weeks, and hit him with the compensation bill.
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Earlier, the court was all ears as the girl’s 45 year old mother recounted the visit to Campbell’s mum’s house, saying: “We were just yapping away as my daughter had a dance competition at the weekend. She was telling (the woman) all about that. We were just sitting blethering away.”
In a gripping testimony, a witness described how the vibe took a terrifying turn when Campbell went to fetch a drink, recounting that his dog appeared at the living room entrance and fixed them with an eerie stare. “The dog was like a statue and before I knew it he was on top of me and my wee girl,” they said in court.
Following the sudden attack, Campbell’s mother reportedly screamed, “Why did you let the dog out? “. His response: “I thought I shut the door.”
When Prosecutor Iain Mathieson probed about the dog’s actions toward her daughter, she detailed the harrowing ordeal. “It jumped on me, I went to save my wee girl but the chair swung around.
“The dog was quite strong and got hold of my wee girl. I was trying to save her. It was growling. My wee girl got pulled to the floor from the chair right along the living room floor. The dog took my wee girl’s nose off.”
As chaos ensued, the woman confessed she’s uncertain how Campbell intervened to detach Boston from her daughter. Recounting the traumatic aftermath, she said, “I was wondering if she was alive.”
To her relief, her daughter grasped her and implored her mother not to weep, despite being in a “state of shock.”
Poignantly, the mother recalled her little girl’s sickness before Campbell urgently dialed for an ambulance. She exclaimed: “He said that it wasn’t his dog that did it. I will never forgive him.”
After the incident, which resulted in the girl losing the entire tip of her nose, she was rushed to surgery at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital where surgeons crafted a new one using skin from behind her ear.
The lass had a four-night hospital stay and missed out on her dance competition that was scheduled just two days post-incident. She underwent counselling for her newfound cynophobia and now lives with a scar on her schnoz.
The woman went on to say: “When she was dancing, she used to wear makeup to cover her nose as she was self conscious.”
During the court hearing, Michael Tierney, defending, suggested the witness might’ve misunderstood his client’s words regarding the dog’s ownership, an idea she firmly denied.
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