Woman ‘gang-raped by three asylum seekers on Brighton seashore’ breaks down in tears as she tells courtroom her ‘complete life’ has been ruined’

A woman allegedly gangraped by three asylum seekers on Brighton beach broke down in tears today as she told how her ‘whole life’ has been ruined by the incident.

The alleged victim, who was drunk, had been enjoying a night out in the seaside resort when she was targeted by the group in a ‘cynical, predatory and callous’ manner, Hove Crown Court has heard. 

In a video interview she told police she remembers coming round on the pebbles with one man lying on her while another orally raped her.

In floods of tears the woman, who is in her 30s and cannot be identified, said she had constant flashbacks to the sound of the three men laughing at her and the seagulls screeching on the beach.

During cross examination she said: ‘They all spat on me and they were laughing while they were spitting on me and when I asked them to stop and they wouldn’t stop. 

‘I was begging them to stop and they wouldn’t stop and they thought it was funny and they were laughing at me it really wasn’t funny.

‘Every day if I close my eyes and it’s not one of them laughing at me, it’s the seagulls I can hear. Every night it bothers me. They thought it was funny. It wasn’t consensual at all. They have ruined my life. They have ruined my whole life.

‘I didn’t say they could do that, or anything. My skin crawls, my skin crawls every day because of what they did to me. They’re evil and they’ve ruined my life. I wouldn’t do that. It would not affect me this much every day if it was consensual.

‘When I woke up I said: “Get off, get off!” but they didn’t. They knew that it wasn’t consensual when I woke up. How can someone give consent when you’re unconscious.’

She said after the men left she woke up to the ‘seagulls and the beach and the sea’ and could not see her alleged attackers.

‘I crawled off the beach then. They knew that was not consensual when I woke up. 

‘How can someone give consent when you’re unconscious? I was drunk but that doesn’t give them the right to rape me.’

Ibrahim Alshafe, 25, from Egypt and Abdulla Ahmadi, 26, from Iran went on trial with each man charged with two counts of physical rape.

The third man, Karin Al-Danasurt, 20, has been charged with four counts of rape by encouraging what happened by filming it. He is additionally charged with intentionally sharing three films of the alleged attack.

Nick Wayne, defending Al-Danasurt, put it to the alleged victim that the defendant did not call her a ‘d**ty b*tch’ and spat in her mouth.

She replied: ‘He’s lying.’

Mr Wayne said Al-Danasurt did not put his finger in her mouth.

She replied: ‘That’s a lie.’

Brian Shaw, defending Alshafe, said asked whether the alleged victim remembers kissing the larger man [Ahmadi] after leaving the nightclub.

She said: ‘I don’t have memory of leaving the nightclub until I woke up on the beach and they were doing it.’

The complainant said during the incident the smaller man [Alshafe] kept saying ‘No touch, no touch’ to his friends as he allegedly raped her.

Mr Shaw asked her whether she had agreed to have sex on the beach with the smaller man [Alshafe].

She replied: ‘Absolutely not and when I asked them to stop they carried on.’

Jonathan Ray, defending Ahmadi, asked if she had agreed to have sex with the larger man [Ahmadi].

She said she had no memory of anything until she woke up on the beach with the men raping her.

Earlier the court heard the three asylum seekers targeted a lone drunk woman in a ‘cynical, predatory and callous’ manner before gang raping her.

The men, who all arrived in the UK on small boats, allegedly targeted the woman as she left a nightclub in the seaside resort.

The jury was told the woman was so drunk she could barely stand and had described herself as ‘paralytic’.

After leaving a nightclub the ‘visibly intoxicated’ woman was seen staggering along the seafront by the three men.

But instead of offering to help her, the men led her down to the pebble beach and found a secluded area near a shack.

There, the court heard, they repeatedly raped her.

The court heard Alshafe and Ahmadi had arrived in the UK by small boats in June 2025 while Al-Danasurt had arrived by the same method in October 2024.

All three men were staying at the Cisswood House Hotel in Horsham – Home Office-approved accommodation for those either seeking or appealing their asylum and immigration status.

The court heard the incident happened in October last year after the alleged victim had gone out in the seaside resort with two friends.

The group had started drinking at home while they got ready before making their way to the Revolution Bar in Brighton at around midnight before moving onto Horizon nightclub.

The alleged victim continued drinking heavily, consuming vodka and coke, Sambuca shots and several Jager bombs and was bought several drinks by two foreign men.

At one stage the alleged victim bumped into rapper Dappy from N-Dubz and had taken a selfie with him.

Towards the end of the evening she became separated from her friend and was sick in the club toilets.

When the club closed around 5am she was seen on CCTV staggering out onto the street and making her way to a nearby Burger King.

As she left the fast food outlet she was approached by the men and led across the road and down a ramp into Brighton Beach.

Prosecutor Hanna Llewellyn-Waters told the court the defendants treated the alleged victim like ‘meat’, dragging her onto pebbles in a secluded part of Brighton beach, where they took turns to rape her.

The woman said she was left bloodied and was drifting in and out of consciousness during the assault.

Jurors were shown footage of the ‘motionless’ woman, lying on her back with her eyes closed, while Ahmadi and Alshafe were penetrating her.

One clip, found on Al-Danasurt’s phone, showed Ahmadi covering his face with his hand during the alleged assault.

Al-Danasurt told police he barely knew his co-defendants, and videoed what happened because he wanted to capture ‘potential evidence’.

He said he did not intervene ‘because he was in shock and unsure how to react’.

He told police he was ‘really trying to help the woman’.

Ahmadi said the woman was fully consenting and in fact initiated the sexual encounter on the beach with the three of them.

Alshafe denied being present in Brighton altogether.

The trial continues