Small-boat migrants who gang-raped unconscious woman on beach are jailed for 60 years after ‘degrading her in the most appalling way’

Three failed asylum seekers who gang-raped an unconscious woman on Brighton beach in a ‘totally predatory and callous attack’ today faced deportation after being handed lengthy prison sentences.

Egyptians Karin Al-Danasurt and Ibrahim Alshafe and Iranian national Abdulla Ahmadi were given extended prison sentences of up to 27 years for their “predatory, callous and humiliating” behavior.

Judge Christine Henson KC told the hearing that the small boat migrants’ statements denying they had raped the ‘defenseless’ woman offered a ‘chilling insight into your warped mentalities’.

He said: ‘The arrogant and entitled attitudes each of you displayed that night continued throughout your trial.

‘Each of you was prepared to say whatever it took to deflect your actions – tell lie after lie, blame others, from the police to the translators and lawyers.’

The victim, an unidentified local woman in her 30s, became emotional as she bravely recalled the terrifying 25-minute ordeal at the vile trio’s sentencing hearing today.

Her voice cracking slightly as she gave evidence behind a screen, she told Hove Crown Court: ‘They ruined my life that night; They violated me in every way.

‘My skin tingles; No matter how hard I brush, I still feel dirty.’

Egyptian Ibrahim Alshafe was found guilty along with two defendants

Egyptian Karin Al-Danasurt, who was convicted of gang rape, has a previous conviction for murder

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

Shameless Al-Danasurt tried to cover his face as he left court to begin his 18.5-year sentence

While being taken from the court, Alshafe walked with crutches and wrapped a T-shirt around his head to hide his face from the cameras.

The three men were convicted of multiple counts of rape in April after a five-week trial.

Alshafe and Ahmadi, both 26 years old, were sentenced to 21 years in prison each for two counts of rape.

Al-Danasurt, 21, who filmed the rape but did not physically attack the victim, was found guilty of four rapes and sentenced to 18 years and six months in prison.

All three were given six-year extended licenses after their release from prison. They will be released after serving two-thirds of their sentences.

Their asylum claims were rejected and they are expected to be deported, but the judge said that was now the Home Office’s job.

The victim, who was praised by the judge for his ‘tremendous bravery’, was enjoying a night out with friends when the trio lured him to a secluded part of Brighton beach.

They subjected him to a brutal attack, treating the defenseless victim as ‘meat’.

It was later revealed that Al-Danasurt was convicted of murder in his home country in 2022, but fled to Europe in 2024 and crossed the Channel illegally into the United Kingdom.

UK authorities were not at their wits’ end until Al-Danasurt raised the issue in his asylum application, and they were still unable to verify the authenticity of his application.

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.

Reading her witness statement at Hove Crown Court, she said: ‘I don’t think I will ever drink, go to clubs or go out in general again.

‘It affects me in every way in daily life; Most of the time it’s okay, but sometimes it’s unbearable.

‘Most nights when I try to fall asleep I can hear the seagulls [the rapists] laughing.

‘Feels like I went back to the beach that night.’ My skin is tingling and no matter how much I scrub, I can’t get it clean.

‘I am so ashamed that my body was violated that night; ‘I don’t think I’ll ever have a partner again.’

He added: ‘Sometimes it can be better not to remember. I ask myself what kind of person does this, let alone three?’

Prosecutor Hanna Llewellyn-Waters KC told the hearing how the trio filmed themselves getting ready at a Home Office hotel in Horsham, where they were staying before visiting bars and nightclubs on Brighton seafront, where they “surveilled women for sexual purposes that night”.

The men crossed paths as the victim, separated from his friends after a night out, was stumbling along the promenade.

Two men approached him on the street at around 5.45am on October 4 last year and began talking to him, and just four minutes later he was seen on CCTV walking him towards a ramp leading to the beach.

Al-Danasurt is seen sitting with co-defendants Ahmadi (center) and Alshafe; All three men entered the country illegally

Al-Danasurt grins as he is taken to the prison van after a previous hearing

The woman was then taken behind a Beach Patrol shack and while she was in and out of consciousness, Ahmadi and Alshafe brutally raped her.

The duo was joined by Al-Danasurt, who filmed her on his phone, laughing and repeatedly calling her: ‘Dirty bitch, dirty bitch.’

At one point he grabbed her face, forced her mouth open and spit it out while encouraging her friends to do the same.

CCTV footage shows the group chatting throughout the night and groping other women, including a friend of the woman they raped.

The trio then went back to one of the asylum hotels and had a barbecue.

Hanna Llewellyn-Waters KC said they saw their victim as a piece of ‘meat’, not a human being, and had a ‘distorted sense of pride in their humiliation’ of her.

He described their behavior today as ‘predatory, callous and insulting’ and said they ‘lacked humanity’.

All three denied raping the woman. Al-Danasurt even shamelessly told jurors that he had tried to ‘help’ the woman by filming her, thus creating evidence of the attack.

But he did nothing to stop the violent attacks and told jurors ‘rape is sex’.

The other two told the court the sex was consensual.

Giving evidence during the hearing, the woman said she ‘begged them to stop’ as she drifted in and out of consciousness, but they did not.

He told jurors: ‘Every time I close my eyes I can see them laughing at me. It bothers me every night.

‘They thought it was funny. It wasn’t consensual at all. They literally ruined my entire life.

‘I didn’t say they could do this. I got goosebumps because of what they did to me.

‘They are evil and they ruined my life.’

He described himself as a ‘paralyzing drunk’ and said he had no memory of how he ended up on Brighton beach.

Migrants filmed themselves barbecuing at asylum hotel after raping victim on Brighton beach

In a CCTV clip, Alshafe could be seen talking to an unidentified woman at Horizon nightclub in Brighton in the early hours of October 4 after interacting at another club.

Since he could not speak Arabic and she could not speak English, the two communicated through the Google Translate application.

In a series of messages, he asked her where she was from and told her she was welcome in the UK, but questioned her reason for coming to the country.

He asked her what her ‘goal’ was for the future and how she thought her life in Britain would develop.

Prosecutor Ms Llewellyn-Waters, who read the message, said the woman asked: ‘Is your only purpose here to marry an Englishwoman?’

He replied: ‘I am in this country. ‘I will build my future, meet a woman, get married, have children and become a citizen.’

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.

Following the conviction, Conservative Party leader Kemi 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.’

Border Security and Asylum Minister Alex Norris said: ‘This case is nothing short of heartbreaking.

‘My thoughts are first and foremost with the victim who suffered unimaginable harm but showed tremendous courage in speaking out against these evil predators.

‘They rightly faced the full force of the law.

‘I want to be absolutely clear; There is no place for foreign criminals in the UK. ‘Sex offenders will be denied refugee protection and we will do everything we can to remove them from the country.’

The prosecutor told the court today that ‘extensive requests’ had been made at the ‘highest level’ to confirm Al-Danasurt’s previous murder conviction, but this had not been achieved.

Ms Llewellyn-Waters said: ‘What was quite clear during the second full interview [with the Home Office] That is, he states that he was convicted in absentia of murder and sentenced to 15 years in prison.’

He said Al-Danasurt said he was innocent.

The court heard Ahmadi offered to apologize to the victim “in person” and signed documents agreeing to her deportation.

But he also asked the court to ask the police to return his mobile phone to him.