THREE migrants have been jailed for 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, they 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.
Judge Christine Henson KC said today there was no guarantee any of the rapists will be deported after they have served their sentences.
Alshafe and Ahmadi were jailed for 21 years each after they were convicted of gang-raping the woman following a harrowing trial.
Al-Danasurt, who filmed the brutal attack, was locked up for 18 years and six months after he was also jointly found guilty on all four counts of rape.
The men, who were described as being “devoid of humanity”, will spend six years on licence once they are released from prison.
Sentencing, Judge Henson said: “Each of you participated in an entirely predatory and callous attack on a female separated from her friends after what had been a fun night out for her.
“You each treated her with contempt and you each played a role in degrading her in the most appalling way.”
It was previously claimed that Al-Danasurt is a convicted murderer in his native Egypt – but the jury were not told of his dark past during the trial.
Al-Danasurt said he was trying to escape the death penalty in Egypt when he crossed the Channel in a small boat and applied for asylum.
But the court heard today prosecutors have been unable to verify his claims.
His defence lawyer Nick Wayne said he “exaggerated what had taken place”.
In a victim impact statement, the woman told how she could “tear my skin off and still feel dirty” and said the fiends “violated me in every way”.
She added: “I don’t think I will ever drink again or go clubbing or go out in general.
“When I close my eyes, I see them laughing at me. All I can see is the seagulls. Sometimes it feels like the noises will never stop.
“I feel like I can’t breathe like I’m back on the beach that night. I can’t catch my breath, my skin crawls.
“They took something from me that night I don’t think I’ll ever get back.
“Like sticking the knife in and twisting it, they are not even sorry for what they did to me.
“I hope one day the laughing, the seagulls and my tight chest will one day stop and I can enjoy a day at the beach with my friends again.”
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.
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.
Security and Asylum Minister Alex Norris said: “This case is nothing short of gut-wrenching. My thoughts are first and foremost with the victim who has suffered the most unimaginable harm yet shown such tremendous courage in speaking out against these evil predators. They have 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 protections, and we will do everything in our power to get them out of the country.”
