LISTEN: "I don't know where I found the strength from" - Angus woman on terrifying moment she fought off two male attackers

Kelly Soutar was targeted while walking home after a night out in Forfar in September

Published 17th May 2018

A karate kicking attack victim who battered her assailants after they tailed her home from a nightclub before launching a terrifying attack is speaking of her "complete relief" after the pair were jailed for a total of six years.

Kelly Soutar, 29, told a court how Shehab Smekramuddin and Mohammad Islam - both illegal immigrants who claim to be "political refugees" - had followed her from a Forfar nightspot towards her home in the Angus town before they struck.

Kelly, who works as a welder and who has a brown belt in karate - said her self-defence training kicked in allowing her to punch, headbutt and kick the duo before making off.

A sheriff jailed the pair for three years each - and they now face deportation to their native Bangladesh when their sentences expire.

She's been speaking to our reporter Hazel Martin..