Girl tells trial she pulled knife and axe after man pushed her

A girl has told a trial she pulled a knife and an axe from her waistband after a man made sexual remarks to her and pushed her to the ground.

The 13-year-old said the man repeatedly said to her: "Come here sexy, I'll show you how to have a good time."

Ilia Belov, 22, is accused of attacking the girl in St Ann Lane in the Lochee area of Dundee in August last year.

He is also accused of following her and three other girls, all who were aged between 12 and 14. Belov denies the charges.

The 13-year-old was giving evidence at Belov's trial at Dundee Sheriff Court.

She told the court that she had been walking with her sister and three friends in the Lochee area when the group passed two men, one of whom was muscular and in his 20s.

She said it was at this point the man made the sexual remarks.

Prosecutor Michael Robertson asked the girl how she felt, to which she replied: "Angry - I turned around and shouted at him."

The girl said her sister also started to shout at the man, but the pair were pulled away by a friend.

She then told the court that a woman 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 the man.

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

The girl said she saw her sister being "kicked in the head" by the woman.

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

She said she later dumped the weapons at a nearby roundabout.

Flynn also put it to her that Belov had not been the one to start the incident, and that he had just been responding to comments that had been made to him.

The lawyer put it to the witness that she had called his client an "immigrant", which she denied.

Following her evidence, Sheriff Tim Niven-Smith told the girl: "I hope you reflect that it's not a good idea to carry weapons in the city of Dundee."

He said "there is no such thing as a defensive weapon, there are only offensive weapons".

The trial continues in June.