THREE migrants have been found guilty of gang-raping a woman after dragging her to a secluded beach and laughing as they spat on and kicked her.
Egyptian nationals Karin Al-Danasurt, 20, and Ibrahim Alshafe, 25, and Iranian national Abdulla Ahmadi, 26, targeted the woman after she became separated from her friends.
The fiends treated her “like meat” as she was “repeatedly abused for their sexual gratification and entertainment”.
In a chilling prolonged attack, the trio laughed as they kicked the woman and spat on her while filming the horror in Brighton.
As she drifted in and out of consciousness, the terrified victim feared the men would kill her as they pinned her down.
At the time, the trio were staying at Cisswood House Hotel in Horsham, West Sussex, which was Home Office-approved accommodation for asylum seekers.
Hove Crown Court heard Alshafe and Ahmadi both arrived in the UK via small boat on June 19, 2025 – three months before the rape – while Al-Danasurt entered the country on October 11, 2024.
Alshafe and Ahmadi have now been convicted of gang-raping the woman following a harrowing trial.
Al-Danasurt, who filmed the brutal attack, was also jointly convicted on all four counts of rape.
It has now been revealed that he is a convicted murderer in his native Egypt – but the jury were not told of his dark past.
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Al-Danasurt was trying to escape the death penalty in Egypt when he crossed the Channel in a small boat and applied for asylum.
Jurors heard the fiends sought to blame each other for the twisted crime but all three had been “on the prowl” for women all evening.
They had filmed themselves getting ready for a night out before catching a bus into Brighton in October last year.
Once there, the migrants targeted the woman as she left a nightclub in the seaside resort.
She had been at a bar with friends until around 3am before going to a nightclub near the beach.
The woman told police she remembered “taking drinks off this Asian man” before she was sick in the toilet.
She added: “After that I don’t remember anything.”
Prosecutor Hanna Llwellyn-Waters said she was intoxicated at the time and “to all intents and purposes, incapacitated”.
The court heard the woman was “staggering in the street” alone when she was “targeted” by the three defendants.
Ms Llewellyn-Waters continued: “That targeting was not founded in good will or bonhomie, in high spirits – it was cynical, predatory and callous.”
Alshafe and Ahmadi took the woman to a location behind a beach shack and raped her “repeatedly”.
Al-Danasurt followed and although the woman did not know if he raped her, the prosecutor said he was “fully aware of what was happening”.
He was said to have “served to encourage the commission of those rapes” by filming the attack.
Jurors were shown disturbing footage of the “motionless” woman lying on her back with her eyes closed, while Ahmadi and Alshafe raped her.
One clip, found on Al-Danasurt’s phone, showed Ahmadi covering his face with his hand during the attack.
The group also branded her a “dirty b***h” as they laughed and took turns spitting on her.
She said she was left bloodied and was drifting in and out of consciousness during the assault.
How did fiends end up in UK?
KARIN AL-DANASURT
According to Karin Al-Danasurt, he was born on June 22, 2005, in Egypt and went to school there until the age of 11.
Nothing is known of his teenage years but he told UK police he left Egypt to come to this country in June 2022. However he didn’t arrive until October 2024.
After a few days in a detention centre he was moved to the Cisswood House Hotel in Horsham – Home Office-approved accommodation for asylum seekers.
After fellow Egyptian Ibrahim Alshafe arrived at the hotel in 2025, the pair became roommates in Room 5.
IBRAHIM ALSHAFE
He was born in and lived in Alexandria, Egypt with his two sisters. His older brother had already sought asylum in Italy.
Alshafe went to school in Egypt at the age of six and left at 14 and later joined the Army where he served for three years. He had a relationship with a woman called Sara though he told police they were never intimate.
He said he decided to quit Egypt after leaving the Army as the financial situation was dire and he wanted to create a future for himself.
He told UK authorities that while trying to make his way to Europe via Libya he and his group of migrants were kidnapped by an unknown militia. He said they were taken to a camp where they had to phone family and ask them to pay a ransom before they were released and allowed to continue on their journey.
He said: ‘I was beaten and insulted and the marks on my body still exist. I tried a second attempt and I arrived in Italy in May 2025.’
Alshafe claimed he had to raise £1,100 to get money for the small boat traffickers and was stopped by UK Border Force after leaving France. It was on the small boat he says he first met Abdulla Ahmadi.
ABDULLA AHMADI
Ahmadi was born in Iran into a Kurdish community and says he had no formal education.
He said he was an only child and told UK authorities his father died when he was 13 and he had worked as a labourer and farm hand.
His mother, he said, was not in good health and suffered with kidney problems and he himself broke his shoulder, making it difficult to work.
Asked why he left Iran he said he had worked as a volunteer for the Democratic Party for Iranian Kurdistan – a hardline separatist party responsible for advocating self-determination for Kurdish people in Iran.
It has been behind recent opposition to the regime and is banned and declared a terrorist by Iran and thus not able to operate openly in the country.
Ahmadi said: ‘I was discovered by security police. If I hadn’t left I would have been arrested and killed.’
He said he escaped the country with assistance from his uncle and eventually found his way to France.
Ahmadi said he met Alshafe on the boat and although he understood only basic Arabic, the pair made friends.
They were both sent to Cisswood House Hotel after being apprehended by UK Border Force.
During her harrowing evidence, the woman told the court she was left fearing the men would kill her and said she struggled to breathe as she was pinned down.
She added: “I don’t know why they done it to me. I’m a nice person.
“I hug everybody, I just thought ‘Why are you doing this to me’.
“I remember saying that ‘Why are you doing this to me’ and they were just laughing.
“They were violating me and recording me and laughing. I thought they were going to kill me.”
Following the horror, the defendants filmed themselves having a BBQ in the grounds of the asylum hotel.
Al-Danasurt later told the jury “rape to me is sex” when he was quizzed about consent, while Alshafe claimed he was a virgin looking for a British bride.
Ahmadi, from Crewe in Cheshire, and Alshafe, who lives in Horsham, each denied two counts of raping the woman.
Al-Danasurt, also from Horsham, was jointly charged on all four counts of rape as a secondary party by “encouraging the rape by his actions at the scene, including filming it”, and pleaded not guilty to all four.
A further count of “sharing intimate films” Al-Danasurt faced was withdrawn after it was established the offence can only be tried in a magistrates’ court.
All three men, who are currently appealing after their asylum applications were refused, will be sentenced on July 15.
Holly Morton, Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor from the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “This was an utterly appalling and violent attack on a woman unable to consent to any sexual activity.
“These men targeted her in a cynical, predatory and callous way, dragging her to a secluded spot, before repeatedly raping her for their own sexual gratification.
“None of us can begin to imagine what the woman went through that night. She described drifting in and out of consciousness and hearing the men laughing.
“Thanks to the bravery of the victim in reporting what happened to her that night, we have been able to bring these dangerous men to justice and ensure that they cannot target women again.”
