A MAN is to stand trial charged with inserting a sex toy into a dog.

Rory Knox, 38, is accused of causing the animal "unnecessary suffering" on April 18, 2021.

The alleged offence is said to have taken place at a property of Milton of Campsie, East Dunbartonshire.

Prosecutors claim the sex toy ended up lodged inside the dog injuring the animal.

Knox, who was described in court papers as a resident of Scott Court in Helensburgh, but who the Advertiser understands is no longer living at that address, made no plea during at a hearing at Glasgow Sheriff Court.

A trial, however, was set for February 2022.

A further hearing will take place before then in January next year.

Knox remains on bail.

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