Fury erupts over why small boat migrant murderer who fled Egypt before committing sex attack on unconscious woman on Brighton beach was staying in asylum hotel

Anger has erupted over why a small boat migrant killer who fled Egypt before sexually assaulting an unconscious woman on Brighton beach is staying in a mental hospital hotel.

Violent bandit Karin Al-Danasurt was trying to escape the death penalty in her home country when she crossed the Channel in a small boat in 2024.

The Egyptian national is believed to have deceived immigration officials by providing a false name, allowing him to seek asylum.

Convicted of murder, he fled Egypt in 2022 and lived as a fugitive in Europe for two years before heading to the UK.

Al-Danasurt, 20, and asylum seekers Ibrahim Alshafe, 25, also from Egypt, and Abdulla Ahmadi, 26, from Iran, were found guilty of brutally raping a woman multiple times as she walked home from a nightclub.

The verdict came after a five-week trial in which jurors heard grinning criminals treated their defenseless victims like ‘meat’.

MPs reacted angrily on Thursday night, questioning how a convicted murderer managed to enter the UK and commit a heinous crime.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said she was concerned about the number of men coming to the UK illegally and holding “backward and medieval” views of women.

In the photo, the 20-year-old, seated with co-defendants Abdulla Ahmadi (centre) and Ibrahim Alshafe (right), entered the country illegally before sexually assaulting a defenseless woman.

Ms Badenoch said: ‘There are people touring our country, trying to come here to claim asylum for genuine refugees, but in fact they are coming here to harm others.

‘Especially as a woman, I’m very concerned that a lot of men come here with backwards, medieval attitudes and think they can do whatever they want. ‘We need to be very tough on them.’

Robert Jenrick, the former Tory immigration minister until 2023 who now represents Reform UK, said: ‘These bad guys should never have been in our country. ‘I don’t care if they have a hard time when they return to Egypt, they should be deported so they never set foot in this country again.’

News of Al-Danasurt’s previous murder conviction raised questions about how he was able to stay at the three-star Cisswood House Hotel in West Sussex.

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp also hit back, saying British women and girls were ‘put at risk every day’ by illegal immigrants.

he said Sun: ‘Scum like this murderer and rapist, who are also illegal immigrants, should not be placed in comfortable hotels paid for by taxpayers.

‘This case shows that we have no idea what kind of men have entered the country, including 70,000 in small boats, since Keir Starmer became Prime Minister.’

Mr Philp said migrant criminals could be deported within a week of arrival if Britain leaves the European Convention on Human Rights.

Al-Danasurt recorded his friends repeatedly attacking the woman in her 30s on her mobile phone, and the woman said she went in and out of consciousness during the attack.

He told the court: ‘I was begging them to stop but they didn’t. Every time I close my eyes I see them laughing at me. It bothers me every night.

‘They thought it was funny. ‘They literally ruined my whole life.’

After the attack, the court heard the trio took a bus back to their asylum hotel and had a barbecue.

Al-Danasurt shamelessly told jurors at Hove Crown Court that he had tried to ‘help’ the woman by gathering evidence of the attack.

But he did nothing to stop the violent attacks on October 4 last year, in which his friends slapped, spat and hurled vulgar gestures at the woman.

“Rape is sex,” he told the jury when asked about consent.

All three were people who could not seek asylum. It is understood each of them has appealed the decision.

It may only now be revealed that Al-Danasurt fled Egypt in 2022, was convicted of murder, and sentenced to a long prison sentence or even the death penalty.

He lived illegally in Europe for two years before heading to the UK.

When police searched Al-Danasurt’s room at immigration hotel Cisswood House in Horsham, West Sussex, shocking details of the 20-year-old’s past emerged.

Egyptian Alshafe was also found guilty along with two other defendants

Ahmadi, an Iranian national, was convicted by jurors who deliberated for more than 16 hours

The victim of the callous attack left the nightclub shortly after 5am and walked along the beach before being attacked behind a shack on Brighton Beach.

Authorities have now vowed to deport Al-Danasurt and his two accomplices, also small boat migrants.

But the case has again highlighted the fragility of the UK’s borders, with Al-Danasurt among a large number of small boat migrants thought to have infiltrated the country under an assumed name.

Al-Danasurt arrived in the UK on a small boat on 11 October 2024. She gave her name as Karin Abdulaziz Al-Danasurt and said she was born on June 22, 2005. This meant he was 19 when he arrived in the UK and not 17 when he killed someone in Egypt. Foreign criminals are routinely refused entry to the UK, meaning they should never enter the country.

He was then given a room at the Cisswood House Hotel, a Home Office-approved accommodation, where he met his Egyptian Alshafe friends. The couple became roommates because they are from the same North African country.

Details of Al-Danasurt’s criminal history emerged at a plea hearing in November last year ahead of the trial, but the judge withdrew evidence in the case after his defense team appealed the conviction.

But jurors didn’t know he was wanted for murder. They deliberated for 16 hours and 28 minutes before finding Al-Danasurt guilty of four counts of rape; Ahmadi and Alshafe were found guilty of two counts of rape each.

Prosecutor Hanna Llewellyn-Waters KC told the court that ‘investigations are ongoing’ into Al-Danasurt’s crimes abroad.

All three defendants are now considered foreign national criminals, meaning they could be considered for deportation.

However, it is feared that they may object to the decision on human rights grounds.

Border Security and Asylum Minister Alex Norris said: ‘The perpetrators have now been rightly convicted. ‘Once sentencing we will move to deport them from British territory.’

The trio will be sentenced on July 15.