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mowing down a pedestrian and a dog in a row over the animal's poo has walked free from court.Alexander McKinley was said to have run over Dean Johnstone and Rico the Rottweiler, leaving the animal so badly injured that it had to be put down.McKinley, 56, denied carrying out a life-threatening assault on Mr Johnstone by deliberately knocking him down in his van.And at Paisley Sheriff Court on Monday, he was cleared after his lawyer argued he had no case to answer.Mr Johnstone, and witness Robert Duffy, had said Johnstone and the dog were struck by a white van in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, on September 4, 2018.Mr Johnstone, 27, said he’d clashed with a drunken McKinley while walking Rico, with McKinley chasing him with a metal pole shortly

mowed down a man and his dog in his van because the rottweiler pooed on his driveway, a court has heard.Alexander McKinley is said to have carried out a life-threatening assault on Dean Johnstone by deliberately knocking him down in his van.And a witness has told how he saw the incident unfold in front of him - and heard the dog "yelping" in pain afterwards.Robert Duffy, 66, was giving evidence at McKinley's Paisley Sheriff Court trial.He denies assaulting Mr Johnstone by driving a Vauxhall Combo van at him - and striking both him and the dog "to his injury and danger of life" - on September 4, 2018, in William Street, Johnstone.Mr Duffy said: "I had to step back onto the pavement as the car came screaming down the hill."If you imagine a