TWO asylum seekers raped a woman on Brighton beach after a night out as a third filmed the “cynical, predatory and callous” attack”, a court heard.
Egyptian nationals Karin Al-Danasurt, 20, and Ibrahim Alshafe, 25, and Iranian national Abdulla Ahmadi, 26, allegedly targeted the woman after she became separated from her friends.
She later told police she was spat on, kicked and had her throat grabbed by the “laughing” men, jurors heard.
At the time, the trio were staying at Cisswood House Hotel in Horsham, West Sussex, which was Home Office-approved accommodation for asylum seekers, it was said.
Hove Crown Court heard Alshafe and Ahmadi both entered the UK via small boat on June 19, 2025 – three months before the alleged rapes.
Al-Danasurt entered the country on October 11, 2024, it was said.
Jurors heard the woman was allegedly attacked in the early hours of October 4 last year following a night out.
Prosecutor Hanna Llewellyn-Waters said she was intoxicated at the time and “to all intents and purposes, incapacitated”.
She added: “Frankly, to these defendants, the complainant was meat.
“She was repeatedly abused for their sexual gratification and entertainment.
“They wanted sex and that could be achieved by being with someone who was in no state to resist them.”
The court heard the woman was “staggering in the street” alone when she was “approached “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.
“Al-Danasurt himself in his police interview recognised that she was unable to even stand without support.”
Alshafe and Ahmadi took the woman to a location behind a beach shack which obscured the view on to the beach and raped her “repeatedly”, jurors heard.
Al-Danasurt is alleged to have followed and although the woman did not know if he raped her, the prosecutor said he was “fully aware of what was happening”.
He is accused of “serving to encourage the commission of those rapes” by filming the alleged attack.
Jurors were told they would be shown the footage during the course of the trial.
Ahmadi, from Crewe in Cheshire, and Alshafe, who lives in Horsham, have each denied two counts of raping the woman.
Al-Danasurt, also from Horsham, is jointly charged on all four counts of rape as a secondary party “encouraging the rape by his actions at the scene, including filming it”, and has pleaded not guilty to all four.
He denies a fifth count of “sharing intimate films” without the complainant’s consent.
The trial continues.
