That is 0 articles you have read today.
The Aporia is free and carries no advertising, so readers are the only
thing paying for it. If you are getting this much out of it, a small
donation is what keeps it independent.
Daily limit reached
You have read 0 articles today.
That is more than the 15 a day The Aporia gives away,
and well past what it can carry on nothing. Your allowance resets at
midnight.
There is no advertising here and nothing about you is sold, so readers
are the only thing paying for it. If the site is worth this much of
your day, it is worth a few dollars.
Everything else stays open: the
maps, the
directory and
search do
not count against this, and neither does re-opening something you have
already read today.
Ilia Belov, 23, and his sister Nadjedzha Belova, 20, were sentenced for assaulting teenage girls in Dundee's Lochee area last August. Ilia was given 18 months of supervision, 300 hours of unpaid work, and placement on the sex offenders register for 18 months after being found guilty at Dundee Sheriff Court following a trial. Nadjedzha pleaded guilty to one charge and received 180 hours of unpaid work. The assault occurred when Ilia made sexual remarks towards a 12-year-old girl and later physically attacked her, while his sister assaulted another girl in the group.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-10-09,
using this article's own text rather than the other coverage of the
same event (that is the story summary below).
Story summary
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.”
Written for “Bulgarian Siblings Sentencing Dundee” on 2026-10-09,
grounded in this article and the 2 other(s) covering the same event.
Why this leaning score
This article does not take a side on a contested political
question, so it has no leaning score. That is an
answer rather than a gap: a match report or a rescue can be warmly
or critically written without being left or right, and scoring it
anyway is how approval of a subject gets recorded as a political
position.
No political leaning scored for article 68076 · logged 2026-10-09
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
On Friday, he was sentenced to 18 months of supervision, 300 hours of unpaid work, and had his name placed on the sex offenders register for 18 months.
He had been found guilty following a trial at Dundee Sheriff Court earlier this year.
asserted
He → sentence → 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
She was sentenced to 180 hours of unpaid work during the same hearing at Dundee Sheriff Court on Friday.
asserted
She → sentence → Friday
Sheriff Timothy Niven-Smith had earlier rejected Belov’s version of events, describing it as “neither credible nor reliable”.
asserted
Smith → reject → it
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 videolink, the girl, who is now 14, recalled: “He kept saying, ‘come here sexy.
asserted
He → give → videolink
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.
asserted
she → say → him
Belov then phoned his sister, who arrived shortly afterwards and began attacking a 13-year-old member of the group.
asserted
who → phone → 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 → ensue → 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
When the police arrived minutes later, the girl said she dumped the weapons on a nearby roundabout, where they were later recovered by officers.
asserted
they → arrive → officers
Belov had 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
The Aporia
