A Bulgarian migrant brother and sister face sentencing in Dundee, Scotland after they were both found guilty of attacking a group of teen girls ages 12 to 14. After the siblings attacked the girls, brother Ilia Belov, 22, filmed the girls. Belov can be heard telling the girl, "show the knife, show the knife, that's it, show the knife." She pulled a knife and axe from her waistband following the assault.
CCTV video of the incident debunked the initial claims from the Bulgarian siblings that they had been threatened by the girls. After the verdict, the mother of one of the girls said, "They were telling the truth and they were slandered. There were too many lies at the start, so I'm glad it's all come out." She went on to say that it was "heartbreaking" to see her daughter be "dragged about" on the CCTV footage.
A prosecutor asked Belov, "You were the adult in this situation, you could have just walked away, couldn't you?"
"You are right," he replied, "I needed to know why they are disrespecting me for no reason." The court heard that he made sexual remarks at the girls and that in reply, they said he was a creep.
Videos of the girl holding her weapons in a defensive posture went viral, with some villainizing her while others praised her as a hero. The girl was initially charged. A video of the incident, as filmed by the brother, shows her holding an axe and knife, looking extremely upset.
In that background, one of the girls can be heard shouting, "Don't touch my little sister, she's f*cking twelve."
Sister Nadjedzha Belova, 20, admitted to assaulting one of the girls, just 13-years-old, "by seizing and pulling her hair, dragging her to the ground, and striking her on the head to her injury," reports the BBC.
Her brother, Belov, said the girls said mean things to him before he attacked them, and that one of them had a knife in her waistband. "Hello sexy, I'll show you a good time," he said to the girls while walking through the Lochee neighborhood.
The girls, the court heard, called him a creep, so Belov turned and followed them to confront them, calling his sister as he did so. He claimed that he was being "disrespected." The girls, he told the court, "started panicking" as he followed them.
At the time, after the video went viral, he claimed that he was completely innocent and that he did not attempt to touch or harm the girls.
The court found that his sister Belova assaulted one of them and he pushed a 12-year-old girl, who then pulled a knife and axe from her waistband.
The girl told the court that she did so only after Belov assaulted her. Prior to the assault, her sister shouted at Belov and his sister, and the girls' friend pulled the sisters away. Belov, however, pursued them and "pushed her and threw her sister to the ground."
"Around 7:40 pm on Saturday, we received a report of a female youth with a bladed weapon in St Ann Lane, Dundee. Officers attended and a 14-year-old girl was charged in connection. She will be reported to the relevant authorities," said a Police Scotland spokesperson at the time.
She told the court that she tried to go after Belov's sister, but was pushed and she fell, hitting her head on a ramp. The girls also noted, Belov said, that he was a migrant, apparently, and said a curse word, Belov said. Belov is not a Scottish name.
"I am entirely satisfied by proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the trigger for all of this were the comments that you made," said Sheriff Tim Niven-Smith to Belov over his claims of self-defense.
CCTV video of the incident debunked the initial claims from the Bulgarian siblings that they had been threatened by the girls. After the verdict, the mother of one of the girls said, "They were telling the truth and they were slandered. There were too many lies at the start, so I'm glad it's all come out." She went on to say that it was "heartbreaking" to see her daughter be "dragged about" on the CCTV footage.
A prosecutor asked Belov, "You were the adult in this situation, you could have just walked away, couldn't you?"
"You are right," he replied, "I needed to know why they are disrespecting me for no reason." The court heard that he made sexual remarks at the girls and that in reply, they said he was a creep.
Videos of the girl holding her weapons in a defensive posture went viral, with some villainizing her while others praised her as a hero. The girl was initially charged. A video of the incident, as filmed by the brother, shows her holding an axe and knife, looking extremely upset.
In that background, one of the girls can be heard shouting, "Don't touch my little sister, she's f*cking twelve."
Sister Nadjedzha Belova, 20, admitted to assaulting one of the girls, just 13-years-old, "by seizing and pulling her hair, dragging her to the ground, and striking her on the head to her injury," reports the BBC.
Her brother, Belov, said the girls said mean things to him before he attacked them, and that one of them had a knife in her waistband. "Hello sexy, I'll show you a good time," he said to the girls while walking through the Lochee neighborhood.
The girls, the court heard, called him a creep, so Belov turned and followed them to confront them, calling his sister as he did so. He claimed that he was being "disrespected." The girls, he told the court, "started panicking" as he followed them.
At the time, after the video went viral, he claimed that he was completely innocent and that he did not attempt to touch or harm the girls.
The court found that his sister Belova assaulted one of them and he pushed a 12-year-old girl, who then pulled a knife and axe from her waistband.
The girl told the court that she did so only after Belov assaulted her. Prior to the assault, her sister shouted at Belov and his sister, and the girls' friend pulled the sisters away. Belov, however, pursued them and "pushed her and threw her sister to the ground."
"Around 7:40 pm on Saturday, we received a report of a female youth with a bladed weapon in St Ann Lane, Dundee. Officers attended and a 14-year-old girl was charged in connection. She will be reported to the relevant authorities," said a Police Scotland spokesperson at the time.
She told the court that she tried to go after Belov's sister, but was pushed and she fell, hitting her head on a ramp. The girls also noted, Belov said, that he was a migrant, apparently, and said a curse word, Belov said. Belov is not a Scottish name.
"I am entirely satisfied by proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the trigger for all of this were the comments that you made," said Sheriff Tim Niven-Smith to Belov over his claims of self-defense.
