A MAN who watched as his girlfriend's dog mauled her neighbour's face, leaving her scarred for life, has been jailed for taunting the victim by flashing his bum at her as he awaited trial.

Patrick Maher did nothing as Leeanne McHugh's Japenese Akita savaged Sylvia Baillie in Paisley in July last year.

The dog mauled Sylvia so badly that medics lost count of how many stitches they needed to sew her face back together.

Maher, 46, and McHugh, 35, were last month both jailed for a year after the dog attacked Maher's aunt and Mrs Baillie over the course of a fortnight.

Now he has been handed another jail term for taunting Mrs Baillie by flashing his backside at her in the run-up to the earlier court case.

Maher denied he had behaved in a threatening or abusive manner which caused fear or alarm by bearing his buttocks and shouting "Where the f*** is she?" in the early hours of September 21.

Mrs Baillie, 60, bravely took to the stand at his trial at Paisley Sheriff Court to relive the events of the day in question.

She told prosecutor Joanne Gilmour that she and her partner Anthony McLorinan were sitting on her couch watching DVDs when they heard whistling coming from outside.

Mrs Baillie said she was left shaking in fear after looking out of her living room window and across the driveway to McHugh's flat next door, where she saw Maher flashing at her.

She told the court: "I went to the window and lifted the blind and heard Patrick Maher saying 'where the f*** is she now?'

"Then he pulled his trousers down, flashing his bum, and his partner pulled him away and shouted 'you've f***** the court case, now'.

"He was in Leeanne's and the window was wide open.

"I was shocked and I was a bit upset. I sat on the coach, shaking, and then I went and phoned the police."

Mrs Baillie rejected claims from Maher's defence lawyer, Gioia Modlin, that she was "fabricating" what had happened because of "ill-feeling towards Mr Maher because of an earlier case involving the dog".

Giving evidence, Mrs Baillie insisted: "I seen him taking his trousers down and bearing his bum at me.

"I'm not here because of that incident and you'll not hear from me about that. I'm here because of this incident.

"I've had three strokes and I don't need any more. My GP has put me on tablets because of this nonsense.

"It was definitely Mr Maher, definitely."

Maher had denied breaking the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 by behaving in a threatening or abusive manner which was likely to cause a reasonable person to suffer fear or alarm by shouting, swearing and exposing his buttocks.

He gave evidence in his own defence, claiming he was at his flat in another part of Paisley on the evening in question and had not been at his girlfriend's house since July - the same month Mrs Baillie was attacked in the living room of that flat.

However, Sheriff Tom McCartney saw through his lies and found him guilty of the charge.

As he caged Maher for four months for the offence, Sheriff McCartney told him: "As you are already serving a prison sentence, there is no realistic alternative to deal with this than by imposing a prison sentence."

Speaking outside court, Mrs Baillie said she was "delighted" with the result of the case.

She added: "They tried to make out like I was doing it for revenge but I'm not that sick in the head."

Last month, both Maher and McHugh were banned from keeping dogs for 20 years over their Japanese Akita's attacks on Mrs Baillie and Maher's aunt, Jane Darroch.

Mrs Baillie was attacked in McHugh's home on July 13 after a funeral, as she said goodbye to the dog.

It clamped its teeth in her face, before Mrs Baillie's daughter grabbed the animal and pulled it away.

Two weeks earlier, on June 30, the same dog attacked 72-year-old Mrs Darroch outside her home.

It sank its teeth so deep into her arm that the bone was exposed and medics took 12 stitches to seal the wound.

Maher and McHugh each admitted a charge under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 - that they were in charge of a dog that was dangerously out of control and left its victim scarred for life.

At the conclusion of that court case, Sheriff David Pender ordered the dog to be destroyed and awarded Mrs Darroch £500 and Mrs Baillie £1,000 in compensation for their injuries.