A 10-YEAR-OLD Glasgow girl told a court she thought she was "going to die" when she was attacked with a bottle as she walked home.

The youngster was giving evidence at the trial of Martin Hackett, 26, who is accused of carrying out the assault at Craigton Road, Govan.

She told Glasgow Sheriff Court she was grabbed from behind as she walked home from Asda with a trolley and hit "about 10 times" with a bottle.

She said the attack happened as she bent down to pick up the receipt she had dropped.

The girl told the court: "I got dragged along then I just felt a bottle repeatedly hit me, not just a couple of times, I would say about 10 times."

Procurator fiscal depute Natalie Henderson asked: "Where were you hit? "

The girl replied: "The front of my head, the side of my head, my leg and the back of my head."

She told the court there was blood all over her face and clothes and on the ground, but that she was able to turn round and look at her attacker and she saw him hit her with a Buckfast bottle.

The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, described how she was scared and wanted a cuddle from her mum, but recognised the accused.

The girl said her attacker ran off when another man came towards them.

Miss Henderson asked: "How did you feel after the man went away and people came to help?"

She replied: "Relieved it wasn't going to continue. I thought I was going to die out there."

The court heard the girl's head was split open and she had swelling to her face and black eyes, scrapes on her leg and a lump on the back of her head and will be left with a scar on her forehead.

She said she got out of hospital that night to go home, but was taken back in because she was vomiting blood and was kept in for a couple of days.

Hackett, of Drumoyne Circus, Glasgow, denies assaulting the then-nine-year old last June 22.

He has lodged a special defence of alibi, saying he was at home with his parents.

He also denies charges relating to another assault on August 24 at a flat in Drumoyne.

The trial continues.