A journalist who writes about organised crime told a jury he had acid thrown in his face by a man claiming to be a postman.

Russell Findlay, 44, was giving evidence at the trial of William Burns, 56, and Alexander Porter, 48, from Paisley.

They deny assaulting Mr Findlay to the danger of his life at his home in the west end of Glasgow on December 23, 2015, by throwing sulphuric acid in his face.

They also deny attempting to murder Ross Sherlock by repeatedly discharging a shotgun at him on September 24, 2015, on Dornoch Place and Ronaldsay Drive, Bishopbriggs.

The prosecution claims the alleged offences were aggravated by a connection with serious organised crime.

At the High Court in Glasgow Mr Findlay, who has been a journalist for 24 years, said he answered the doorbell at about 8.30am on December 23, 2015, dressed only in a T-shirt and pyjama bottoms and with bare feet.

He said a man wearing a Royal Mail jacket and carrying a Royal Mail bag handed him a card.

Mr Findlay said: "He asked me to sign so I turned to the sideboard at the door and leaned down and said: Where do I sign?' and he said: 'At the top.'

"I wasn't expecting any parcels but it was Christmas time."

Prosecutor Richard Goddard asked: "What happened next?"

Mr Findlay replied: "I felt liquid splash onto the right hand side of my face. "

The journalist told the jury this was followed by a bottle flying past and then the man, whom he identified in court as William Burns, trying to barge his way into the house.

Mr Goddard asked Mr Findlay: "What was going through your mind?"

He replied: "I knew there was something wrong and this was extremely serious."

Mr Findlay was investigations editor at the Scottish Sun at the time and is the author of a book about Jamie Stevenson and another on the turf war between the Lyons and the Daniel families

Mr Goddard asked: "What did you think was thrown at your face?"

He said: "I thought it was an acidic or toxic substance."

Mr Findlay told the ten women and five men on the jury that following the attack his right eye was blurry and his face was burning.

He said his attacker managed to get one or two feet into his home but he bundled him out of the house and they were wrestling on the ground outside.

Mr Findlay told the court at this point his ten-year-old daughter, who he thought was asleep in bed, came to the door.

He said: "She was distressed, she screamed 'dad'. She was in her pyjamas. She was a small young child."

The court heard her father told her to alert neighbours and she did so. One of them phoned the police and others came out to help.

Mr Findlay was asked if his attacker said anything and he replied: "I asked him who had sent him and he said 'Wee Jamie sends his regards."

The crime journalist said his first thought was Jamie Stevenson or Jamie Daniel but added he discarded that idea the following day.

Police arrived and detained the alleged attacker and Mr Findlay was taken to hospital.

After the incident a knife was found in the threshold of Mr Findlay's home and a glass bottle was recovered from the hallway.

Mr Goddard asked the journalist: "Did you know you would keep the sight of your right eye?"

He responded: "Not at that point. There was scarring on the cornea."

The court heard that after months of specialist eye treatment Mr Findlay has made a full recovery.

Mr Goddard asked him: "Do you have any reason to believe that attack on you was related to anything other than your work?" Mr Findlay replied: "No."

Burns has lodged a special defence of alibi to the attempted murder of Mr Sherlock, claiming he was working at Guinea Enviro in Maryhill, Glasgow, at the time.

He has also lodged a special defence incriminating James Boyce, whose whereabouts are unknown, for the shooting.

The trial before judge Lord Matthews continues.