A MAN is to stand trial charged with trying to kill a two-year-old boy.

David McMullen is accused of attacking the boy at a house in Cambuslang in December 2016.

Prosecutors claim the 33-year-old did “inflict blunt force trauma” on the toddler's body by means “unknown”.

McMullen faces a separate charge of assaulting the same boy on various occasions between June and December 2016 at the same address.

He is further accused of attacking a five-year-old boy at a property in Linwood, Renfrewshire, in May 2009.

It is alleged he did seize the child, prodded him with his fingers and placed him in hot water to his severe injury.

McMullen today appeared for a hearing at the High Court in Glasgow.

His QC Gordon Jackson had previously pleaded not guilty on his behalf.

Judge Lord Boyd set a trial due to take place next March.

McMullen, of the city's Provanmill, had his bail continued meantime.