One of many males was described as being “on the prowl.”
Ibrahim Alshafe (Picture: Eddie Mitchell)
Three asylum seekers have been discovered responsible of raping a lady on Brighton seaside. Ibrahim Alshafe, 25, Abdulla Ahmadi, 26, and Karin Al-Danasurt, 20, raped the girl in a “cynical, predatory and callous” assault after she turned separated from her pals on an evening out, Hove Crown Courtroom heard.
The lady was focused by the boys as she was “staggering on the street” and “incapacitated” within the early hours of October 4 final yr. Two of the boys took her behind a seaside hut within the East Sussex metropolis the place they raped her and the opposite went to the situation moments later and filmed it.
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Ibrahim Alshafe, Abdulla Ahmadi and Karin Al-Danasurt’s assault was ‘predatory and callous’ (Picture: Sussex Police)
Egyptian nationwide Alshafe and Iranian nationwide Ahmadi had been each discovered responsible of two counts of rape by jurors on Thursday (April 23).
Egyptian nationwide Al-Danasurt was additionally discovered responsible of all 4 counts of rape as a secondary get together by encouraging and filming the girl’s ordeal.
Jurors returned their verdicts within the five-week trial after greater than 12 hours of deliberation.
Video proven to jurors reveals Alshafe smiling and sticking his tongue out throughout the assault. He is also seen slapping the girl within the face.
Vile Alshafe and Ahmadi had claimed throughout the trial the encounter was consensual and the girl approached them alongside the seafront, kissed and touched them each, mentioned one thing about intercourse and took them each to the seaside.
Al-Danasurt, who claimed to jurors he tried to cease the assault by filming it, additionally denied he spat within the lady’s mouth and known as her a “soiled bitch”.
Karin Al-Danasurt grins as he leaves court docket (Picture: PA Pictures)
Prosecutor Hanna Llewellyn-Waters KC had informed jurors: “Frankly, to those defendants, the complainant was meat. She was repeatedly abused for his or her sexual gratification and leisure.
“They wished intercourse and that might be achieved by being with somebody who was in no state to withstand them.”
She mentioned the girl informed police she might bear in mind being spat on, kicked, and her throat being grabbed throughout the assault, in addition to males laughing.
Giving proof on the trial, the girl informed the court docket: “It wasn’t consensual, it was not consensual, they’re evil they usually have ruined my life.”
Cross-examined from behind a display screen in court docket, she additionally cried as she mentioned: “It’s the filmer’s face I see each time I shut my eyes, laughing at me.”
Ibrahim Alshafe was ‘nothing greater than a nasty little predator’, jurors heard (Picture: PA Pictures)
In a police interview video performed to jurors, recorded on October 13 2025, the girl mentioned she had been at a bar with pals till round 3am earlier than going to a nightclub close to the seaside.
The lady mentioned she regained consciousness mendacity on the seaside and thought she was going to be killed.
Within the recording, she mentioned: “I closed my eyes as a result of I assumed ‘oh my God, they’re truly going to kill me’, I can hear all these voices and I can’t cease them.”
The court docket additionally heard minutes after leaving the boys, the girl spoke to her pals and was described as “wailing and hysterical saying she has been raped”.
DNA samples had been taken from all three defendants, and DNA from each Alshafe and Ahmadi matched with samples taken from the complainant’s physique throughout a forensic medical examination. Al-Danasurt’s pattern was inconclusive.
On the time of the rapes, all three defendants knew one another and had been livin,g at House Workplace-approved resort lodging for asylum seekers close to Horsham, West Sussex. The court docket heard Ahmadi and Alshafe met one another on a small boat from France arriving within the UK on June 19 2025, whereas Alshafe and Al-Danasurt had been roommates on the resort. Al-Danasurt arrived within the UK on September 21, 2024.
Jurors heard Alshafe’s asylum utility had been refused on October 3, however he informed the court docket he didn’t know in regards to the replace to his case earlier than going to Brighton that night time.
The trio bought prepared on the resort earlier than getting the bus into Brighton on the night time of October 3. A Snapchat video reveals them at round 7.30pm on the resort in entrance of a mirror with Ahmadi sorting a durag – a close-fitting fabric tied across the high of the pinnacle – on Al-Danasurt, who gestures to the digital camera, filmed by Alshafe smiling.
Earlier on the night time out, the buddies went to a bar and nightclub on the seaside the place Alshafe was chatting to a lady through Google Translate about his hopes to marry a lady and have youngsters and get citizenship within the UK.
She mentioned she wish to be pals with him, however didn’t consider he simply wished that “since you’re touching my breasts”.
To which he replied: “I’m pressured by your magnificence.”
The prosecution prompt what actually occurred on the night time on October 4 was Alshafe had been knocked again by a number of ladies and was “on the prowl” with the co-defendants.
Ms Llewellyn-Waters mentioned to him in court docket: “That night time, Mr Alshafe, you had been nothing greater than a nasty little predator.”
After the assault the boys returned to their resort by bus and later had a barbecue collectively within the night, across the similar time the girl was ready to be medically examined.
A video of Al-Danasurt sporting filtered sun shades in a selfie with a lit barbecue was additionally proven in court docket.
Ahmadi left the resort the day after the rape and moved to Crewe, Cheshire, the place he was arrested on October 12, the court docket heard.
The transfer had not been permitted by the House Workplace and Ahmadi had been marked as “absconding, self-departing” from the lodging.
On October 13, Alshafe and Al-Danasurt, each of of Decrease Beeding, close to Horsham, had been arrested by police at their resort.
An additional depend of “sharing intimate movies” with out the complainant’s consent, which Al-Danasurt confronted, was withdrawn on Thursday, April 23, after it was established that the offence can solely be tried in a magistrates’ court docket.
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