Brother and sister guilty of attacking girls in Dundee

A man has been found guilty of making sexual remarks to a group of girls aged between 12 and 14 in Dundee before grabbing and pushing one of them to the ground.

Ilia Belov, 22, claimed he confronted the girls after receiving abusive remarks and said he saw one of the girls with a knife in her waistband before the assault.

His sister Nadjedzha Belova, 20, previously admitted assaulting a 13-year-old girl by seizing and pulling her hair, dragging her to the ground, and striking her on the head to her injury during the incident.

The pair will be sentenced at Dundee Sheriff Court on 5 August.

The court heard that Belov had said "hello sexy, I'll show you a good time" to the girls while walking past them in the Lochee area of the city.

After one of the girls called him a creep, he had returned to confront the group and called his sister, who arrived shortly afterwards and assaulted one of the girls.

Belov then claimed he had seen the girl's weapon and, fearing for his sister had pushed her.

He claimed the children had called him a migrant and used an expletive.

But Sheriff Tim Niven-Smith rejected Belov's claim of self-defence and said the girls' evidence had been "eloquent."

The court heard previously that the 12-year-old girl Belov attacked admitted pulling a knife and axe from her waistband, but only after Belov had assaulted her.

The girl told the trial previously that her sister started to shout at Belov after the remarks, but the pair were pulled away by a friend.

She then told the court Belova approached the group, pushed her and threw her sister to the ground.

The girl said she had tried "to go for" the woman but was pushed by Belov.

She said he pushed her on the head and her head hit the handrail of a ramp.

Cross-examined by Belov's solicitor Larry Flynn, the girl said she had then taken the axe and knife from her waistband, and that Belov filmed her with them on his phone.

Belov told the trial that he had been walking to a shop with his father for cigarettes when he saw a group of young girls.

He claimed that they started to make "cheeky remarks" and one called him a "(expletive) migrant."

Asked by Flynn if he said "hello sexy" to the girls or "I'll show you a good time", he replied "No, I swear on my god."

Belov claimed that after walking away, he was still being "disrespected" so he turned around and went back to the group.

He said at that point the girls "started panicking" and said he was following them.

Belov said he then phoned his sister as the group had grown in numbers and he was "worried about myself."

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