The Home Office will “move to deport” the asylum seekers who raped a woman on the beach “off British soil”.
Ibrahim Alshafe, Abdulla Ahmadi and Karin Al-Danasurt have all been found guilty today at Lewes Crown Court in Hove after the attack on Brighton beach in October last year.
Egyptian national Ibrahim Alshafe, 25, and Iranian national Abdulla Ahmadi, 26, were both found guilty of two counts of rape.
Egyptian national Karin Al-Danasurt, 20, was also found guilty of all four counts of rape as a secondary party by encouraging and filming the ordeal.
A trial at Hove Crown Court heard the woman was targeted by the men as she was “staggering in the street” and was “incapacitated” in the early hours of October 4 last year.
Alshafe and Ahmadi took her behind a beach hut where they raped her and Al-Danasurt went to the location moments later and filmed it.
L-R Ibrahim Alshafe, Karin Al-Danasurt and Abdulla Ahmadi (Image: Sussex News and Pictures)
Speaking after the conviction, border security and asylum minister Alex Norris said the Home Office will “move to deport them off British soil” once sentencing has taken place.
Mr Norris said: “My thoughts are first and foremost with the victim of this appalling crime, and with all those who have been affected by it.
“What she endured is deeply disturbing, and I commend her bravery in coming forward and reporting these vile individuals.
“I share the public’s outrage in their horrendous actions.
“The perpetrators have now been rightly convicted, and justice has been delivered by the courts.
“Once sentencing has taken place, we will move to deport them off British soil.”
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At the time of the incident, all three defendants knew each other and were living at Home Office-approved hotel accommodation for asylum seekers near Horsham.
The court heard Ahmadi and Alshafe met each other on a small boat from France arriving in the UK on June 19, 2025, while Alshafe and Al-Danasurt were roommates at the hotel.
Al-Danasurt arrived in the UK on September 21, 2024.
Jurors heard Alshafe’s asylum application had been refused on October 3, but he told the court he did not know about the update to his case before going to Brighton that night.
The three men will be sentenced July 15 following a dangerousness assessment by the probation service.