‘You destroyed my life’, rape victim tells asylum seekers

From the Telegraph

A woman who was repeatedly raped by asylum seekers on Brighton beach has said her three attackers destroyed her life. She told the court that when she closes her eyes she still sees the man filming the attack, and the others “laughing at me”. “My skin crawls. No matter how hard I scrub it, I still feel dirty,” she said.

The three were jailed on Wednesday for the attack, in which they targeted her as she “staggered” through the street alone and “incapacitated” in the early hours of the morning.

Ibrahim Alshafe, 26, an Egyptian national, and Abdulla Ahmadi, 26, an Iranian national, were jailed for 21 years each for rape. Karin Al-Danasurt, 21, an Egyptian national, was sentenced to 18 years and six months for filming the attack and encouraging the attack. All three will serve a further six years on extended licence. The trouble is with the remission/parole system they will be out in much less than that, still young and vigorous men. 

Alshafe and Ahmadi were found guilty of two counts of rape by jurors, while Al-Danasurt was found guilty of four counts of rape as a secondary party by encouraging and filming the attack.

The three defendants were all living at Home Office-approved hotel accommodation for asylum seekers in Lower Beeding, near Horsham, West Sussex.

Ahmadi and Alshafe met on a small boat from France arriving in Britain on June 19, 2025, while Alshafe and Al-Danasurt, who arrived in the UK on Oct 11 2024, were roommates at the hotel.

The three prepared at the hotel before taking a bus into Brighton on the night of Oct 3. The prosecution said he had been a “nasty little predator” that night who had been rejected by several women and was “on the prowl” with the co-defendants.

After the attack, the men returned to their hotel by bus and had a barbecue later that evening, around the time the woman was waiting to be medically examined.

During the trial, all three men gave evidence through translators to deny the crimes.

Ms Llewellyn-Waters said their accounts provided “clear and chilling insight into a wholly warped mindset” and a “total lack of remorse”.

Alshafe and Ahmadi claimed the encounter was consensual and that the woman had approached them on the seafront, had kissed and touched them both, said something about sex and taken them both to the beach.