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Bulgarian siblings who assaulted girls in Dundee due to be sentenced

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Forbes, N. (2026, October 9). Bulgarian siblings who assaulted girls in Dundee due to be sentenced. Evening Standard. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/dundee-b1300104.html

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Ilia Belov, 23, and his sister Nadjedzha Belova, 20, are set to be sentenced for an assault incident in the Lochee area of Dundee that occurred in August 2025. Ilia was found guilty after a trial at Dundee Sheriff Court, while Nadjedzha pleaded guilty to assaulting a 13-year-old girl. The incident started when Ilia made sexual remarks to a 12-year-old girl, leading to an altercation where both siblings were involved in attacking the group of girls.

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In August 2025, Ilia Belov and his sister Nadjedzha Belova, both Bulgarian nationals living in Dundee, Scotland, assaulted several young girls. The incident occurred in the Lochee area of Dundee when Ilia made sexual remarks to a 12-year-old girl, causing her to feel angry and confront him verbally. Ilia then called his sister, who arrived and attacked another girl, aged 13. During this altercation, Ilia pushed the original 12-year-old victim, who fell and hit her head on a metal handrail.

On Friday at Dundee Sheriff Court, Ilia Belov was sentenced to 18 months of supervision, ordered to complete 300 hours of unpaid work, and placed on the sex offenders register for 18 months. His sister, Nadjedzha Belova, received a sentence of 180 hours of unpaid work. The court rejected Ilia’s account of events as “neither credible nor reliable.”

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Ilia Belov, 23, assaulted a 12-year-old girl during the incident and behaved in a “threatening or abusive manner” towards four girls aged between 12 and 14. asserted

Belov → assault → 12

He was found guilty following a trial at Dundee Sheriff Court earlier this year. asserted

He → find → Court

Belov’s sister Nadjedzha Belova, 20, earlier pleaded guilty to one charge of assaulting a 13-year-old girl during the same incident, which happened in the Lochee area of the city in August 2025. asserted

which → plead → August

During the trial, the court heard events began when Belov made sexual remarks to a 12-year-old as she walked towards a bus stop with some other girls. asserted

she → hear → girls

Giving evidence by video-link, the girl, who is now 14, recalled: “He kept saying, ‘come here sexy. asserted

He → give → link

I will show you how to have a good time’.” asserted

I → show → time

She said his words made her feel “dead angry” and she turned around and began shouting at him. Belov then phoned his sister, who arrived shortly afterwards and began attacking a 13-year-old member of the group. In the ensuing fracas, Belov pushed the 12-year-old, who told the court she hit her head on a metal handrail as she fell to the ground. asserted

she → say → ground

After standing back up, she pulled out an axe and knife she said had been hidden in her waistband for five to 10 minutes before the incident. asserted

she → stand → incident

She said after revealing the weapons she was “basically sat holding them”, saying she “knew” the man would “try to go for (another of the girls)”. asserted

man → say → girls

When the police arrived minutes later, the girl said she dumped the weapons on a nearby roundabout, where they were later recovered by officers. Giving evidence during the trial, Belov claimed he had pushed the girl in order to protect his sister after seeing she had a knife hidden under her T-shirt. asserted

she → arrive → shirt

He also denied having made sexualised remarks to the girls, telling the court they had been saying derogatory things to him, including calling him a “f****** migrant”. asserted

they → deny → him

However, Sheriff Niven-Smith rejected Belov’s version of events, describing it as “neither credible nor reliable”. asserted

Smith → reject → it

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