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.”
He said: “I am entirely satisfied by proof beyond reasonable doubt that the trigger for all of this were the comments that you made.”