A pensioner has told a jury how he needed plastic surgery to his arm after what he believed was a vicious dog attack.
John Diver claims he was standing waiting on a bus on September 19, 2020 when he was “knocked out.”
Mr Diver, who was 67, at the time of the alleged incident, told how he had no recollection of the night but could remember seeing a paramedic and a police officer when he regained consciousness.
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Mr Diver explained: “I’m assuming I must have been knocked out.
“The ambulance took me to hospital from Maxwellton Street.
“I required stitches to the injury to my head and I was taken to Glasgow Royal the next day as I had to go for surgery on my forearm.
“I needed plastic surgery due to the injury being caused by a dog bite.”
Mr Diver gave evidence during day two of the trial yesterday at Paisley Sheriff Court against John McNally, 53, and Julie McNally which alleges they were involved in an abduction, assault, being the owner of a “dangerously out of control” dog and drug offences.
Jury members were shown a CCTV recording captured from the ambulance service on the night of September 19, 2020.
The video shows a male lying on the ground with a dog repeatedly running to and from the male and another male using an orange road barrier to keep a dog away from the male.
Giving evidence, Suleiman Niven was asked by prosecutor Edwin Sheeran if he “seen anything” on September 19, as he made his way home in the car with his mother.
Mr Niven explained: “I was driving back home when I came across three people and it seemed like a fight so I stopped to check what was happening.
“I came closer to see what was happening and I asked if emergency services had been called and they hadn’t so I did that first, I dialled 999 and then I went over.
“There was a dog attacking a man. The man was lying on the ground and it looked like the dog had taken some bites, there was blood on the man’s face and hand.
“The owner was trying to pull the dog off the man but not very successfully and trying to get it back on the leash. It was obviously out of control.
“I looked around for something to get the dog off and I found a safety barrier and I managed to push the dog off and kept it away from the man.”
Both McNallys are facing a charge that states they abducted a woman on November 5, 2020, robbed her of her phone and assaulted her by striking her on the head and body and by “cutting her lower clothing and underwear off.” The charge stated the woman was “detained against her will” and that she was assaulted to her “severe injury and permanent disfigurement.”
The charge also states that Mr McNally was the owner of an American Pit Bull dog on September 19, 2020 when it was “dangerously out of control” and attacked a 67-year-old man.
Further charges states both John and Julie McNally, 46, were the owners of an American Pit Bull who caused “severe injury” to the woman we have chosen not to name on November 5.
On the same date, the couple are also alleged to have produced cannabis, a Class-B drug, at a Maxwellton Street flat and been in possession of Etizolam, a Class-C drug.
The jury previously heard how a half-naked woman fled a Paisley flat clutching her severed finger following an alleged abduction bid.
The woman, who we are not identifying, claims John McNally and Julie McNally, locked her in a Maxwellton Street flat before attacking her because they thought she’d stolen their drugs.
The court was told the woman had been friends with the McNallys and was visiting when things turned sour over missing tablets.
She told the jury how she was slapped and pulled to the floor, before having her trousers and pants cut off as the couple tried to find the pills.
At one point she said her finger was severed and she was mauled by an American Pit Bull as she attempted to defend herself, in November 2020.
Both accused deny all charges against them.
The trial before Sheriff Eoin McGinty continues.
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