A woman allegedly gangraped by three asylum seekers on Brighton beach after enjoying a night out has told how she thought she was going to be murdered.
The alleged victim, who was drunk, said she was drifting in and out of consciousness as she was repeatedly raped on the beach.
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.
Breaking down in tears, the woman, who is in her 30s and cannot be identified, says she was shocked, and told police: ‘I thought: “What is going on? Why are you doing to me?” I was like: “Stop! Stop!”
She said: ‘I thought: “Oh my God you’re going to kill me”.
‘I said: “Get off, get off” and he was holding me down. I just closed my eyes. I thought: “What are you going to do to me now?”‘
In the video interview played to Hove Crown Court she said she was worried some men had got her friend and was doing the same to her.
She said: ‘I was thinking: “Please get them off me, please get off me” and when they stopped I thought: “I can breathe again, I can breathe again” but I was too scared to even open my eyes.’
Karin Al-Danasurt, 20, denies recording the woman as she was being attacked by him and two other men
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.
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.
Ibrahim Alshafe, 25, is accused of raping a woman who was also attacked by two other men
Hove Crown 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