Wanted to clear up the points about the young girl carrying weapons.
Cant remember if "Sophie" was Ruby or Lola but she was axe girl so will just call her Sophie as that is her media cover name.
There were four distinct parts to the encounter.
First part, Ilia Belov walks past girls making sexual comments. Rebuffed, leaves, calls his sister.
Second part, at this point Sophie had zoomed into her house and grabbed the weapons. There is no suggestion that carrying weapons was normal for "Sophie" and she grabbed the knife from her kitchen. The axe was in some kind of messy tool holder and was not sharp.
Third part, Ilia Belov returns to where girls are. His adult sister Nadjedzha arrives. Sophie's sister was attacked and injured by Nadjedzha and then Ilia Belov pushes Sophie to the ground when Sophie goes for Nadjedzha. The injury to Sophie's sister requires hospital treatment so is pretty serious.
At this point Sophie's sister is bleeding on the ground and Sophie has been attacked. Faced with an aggressive adult male and aggressive adult female who has just booted her sister in the head Sophie pulls out the weapons.
Fourth part is where most of us started this story, the video where we see Sophie holding the weapons out to protect her sister after she has gotten up from being shoved to the ground. We dont know how long has passed or what has happened in the period between Sophie being shoved to the ground and video starting.
Ilia Belov called the police after getting telo footage of Sophie holding weapons, said it was a racist incident, police uncritically and unquestioningly believed him and did not investigate further.
Am using allegedly from this point on just in case there is any active case against police officers involved or Police Scotland.
Allegedly, it seems police did not bother to check his telo for evidence to support his claims, police just accepted he was telling the truth and the girls were lying.
It is alleged that witnesses told police about what had actually happened when Sophie was being arrested but police never took statements or investigated in any way.
Allegedly, one of these witnesses was shouting at the Belov's when The Courier newspaper was being lied to by Ilia Belov for the story about this incident where he (and they) put the blame fully on the girls, seem to remember the Courier saying that it was a hate crime or racist encounter by a neighbour but was obviously not.
One set of phone footage of the encounter made it online an hour after the incident (not the Belov footage) and was a bit grainy but showed Nadjedzha Belov attacking Sophie's sister including the boot to her head and, allegedly, police said it was faked and did not investigate.
Allegedly, the uploader claimed he was threatened with arrest by police and took the footage down after half an hour.
Allegedly, despite being told that the Belov's had attacked the young girls officers made no attempt to check for wounds or to document wounds on the girls.
We know Police Scotland lied about "checking all the cctv footage". This is not an allegedly statement.
We know that Police Scotland knowingly and wilfully lied in their initial statement. This is not an allegedly statement.
We do know that at some point Sophie's sister is taken to hospital and this does not make it into any public statement by Police Scotland who are still painting the girls as the aggressors. This is not an allegedly statement.
(just like Henry Nowak when police wanted to paint him as the aggressor almost six months after his death when the facts were also fully know to that police force).
Allegedly Police Scotland and their officers did not investigate this case fairly. If true this can be seen as causing actionable harm aggravated by discrimination to the girls involved...and I hope they have a team of lawyers on this one.