Schoolgirl, 9, had nose ripped off in horror dog attack inside Glasgow flat

The nine-year-old girl had her nose ripped off after Callum Campbell's Staffordshire Bull Terrier named Boston pounced on her, bit her and dragged her across the living room floor

A man whose dog bit off a little girl's nose in a horror attack has been ordered to pay £600 in compensation.

Callum Campbell's Staffordshire Bull Terrier, named Boston, attacked the nine-year-old girl at his mum's home in Maryhill, Glasgow on June 16, 2022. The dog jumped on the girl, pulled her from a chair and dragged her across the living room floor. The terrified mother initially thought her daughter had died, as she did not move after the attack.

She was later taken to hospital where skin from her ear was used to create a "new nose". Campbell, 24, insisted that his dog wasn't responsible for the attack. The girl, who was due to compete in a dance competition two days later, spent four nights in hospital recovering. Campbell was found guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court of possessing a dog dangerously out of control.

On Wednesday, Sheriff Mary Shields tagged Campbell for a period of four weeks, keeping him indoors between 7pm and 7am, as well as imposing the compensation order upon him. The court earlier heard from the girl's 45-year-old mother, who had visited Campbell's mum. She said: "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."

The witness stated that atmosphere changed when Campbell entered the kitchen to get a drink. She told the court that Campbell's dog appeared at the door to the living room and stared at them. They said: "The dog was like a statue and before I knew it he was on top of me and my wee girl." The woman claimed Campbell's mum shouted: "Why did you let the dog out?".

He replied that he thought he shut the door. Prosecutor Iain Mathieson asked the witness what the dog did when it reached her daughter. She replied: "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."

The woman stated that she did not know what Campbell did to remove Boston from her daughter. The witness claimed that the girl initially did not move when she was on the ground adding: "I was wondering if she was alive." She stated that the girl hugged her and told her mother not to cry while in a "state of shock." The woman claimed that the girl then went on to be sick while Campbell phoned an ambulance.

She added: "He said that it wasn't his dog that did it. I will never forgive him." The girl was taken straight to the operating theatre at the city's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital after losing the whole tip of her nose, and doctors used skin from the back of her ear to reconstruct it.

The girl was kept in hospital for four nights and missed the competition which would have been two days after the incident. She was given counselling to help with her fear of dogs and has been left with a scar on her nose. The woman added: "When she was dancing, she used to wear makeup to cover her nose as she was self conscious." Michael Tierney, defending, put it to the witness that she misheard his client make the remark that it was not his dog which she refuted.