A 17-year-old girl accused of attacking an elderly man on a bus pleaded with police saying 'I don't want to go' as they walked her to a police van.

THE brother of one of the girls accused of assaulting an elderly blind man on a Gold Coast bus has launched an attack against the victim of the alleged assault.

Mitchell Watmough has taken to Facebook to defend his sister Larna, 21, after she and friend Layni Cameron, 17, were charged with assaulting disabled pensioner Paul Buttigieg, 77, last week.

Mr Watmough claimed Mr Buttigieg provoked the attack and accused the 13-year-old girl who filmed it of creating “a circus”.

Mr Buttigieg, a vision-impaired former jockey, has denied provoking the attack and said he only told the girls to “stop swearing”.

Mr Watmough alleged Mr Buttigieg called the girls “sluts and whores”, spat on them and kicked his sister in the face.

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The Courier-Mail understands these allegations will be part of their legal defence against charges of serious assault and public nuisance.

He said the girls were being falsely portrayed as “terrible villains” and his sister was a “huge victim”.

Mr Watmough has likened the furious social media backlash against them to the cyber-bullying of dead celebrity Charlotte Dawson.

“I have watched as cyber bullying has been taken to a whole new level towards my sister and my family after the loss of the late Charlotte Dawson committing suicide over cyber bullying and everyone declaring we should lock up cyber bullies,’’ he wrote on Facebook.

“All these people are commenting on an edited, cropped video and numerous false accusations on top of fictional journalism.

“My first sight of the video, I was also disgusted and embarrassed, but after learning the video has been edited to make only the girls look like terrible villains, I now see what the media has done to create a massive story.”

Mr Watmough also denied his sister and Cameron had hurled racial slurs at Mr Buttigieg but had been singing My Nigga by rap artist YG.

Watmough, who is on bail, and Cameron, who has been remanded in custody, will return to court on April 23.