3 Asylum Seekers, Egyptians Ibrahim ElShafie and Karin Al-Danasurt, and Iranian Abdulla Ahmadi, face multiple rape charges in Brighton, UK, with the court reviewing video evidence and testimonies surrounding the case.
Three men—two from Egypt and one from Iran—face multiple rape charges in a Brighton court.
The accused, who entered the UK illegally by boat between September 2024 and June 2025, were being housed in a Sussex hotel during their immigration processing.
Despite the presentation of video evidence and testimonies regarding the October 4th assault, Alshafie, Ahmadi, and Al-Danasurt have denied all allegations.
According to BBC, the three men filmed themselves getting ready for a night out, then caught a bus to Brighton. Al-Danasurt told the court they all went to the Horizon nightclub, where he met the other two men just before 3:30am. They stayed until closing time at 5am.
Footage shown to the jury included separate clips of Alshafe and Ahmadi allegedly assaulting the 33-year-old woman behind a beach hut at the Lower Esplanade in the early hours of October 4.
Before the alleged assault took place, AlshafIe approached a separate woman inside the Horizon nightclub that same night. He allegedly groped her, and when she pulled away, he told her he had no intention of returning to his country — and that he had travelled to the UK specifically to marry a British woman and obtain citizenship.
The encounter was presented to the jury as part of the wider picture of his behaviour that night, hours before the alleged attack on the beach.
After the assault, the three men returned to the hotel. The next day, Ahmadi quietly left without telling anyone.
He left a forwarding address in Crewe and disappeared. Police found him there and arrested him on October 12, eight days after the alleged attack.
Alshafe and Al-Danasurt remained at the hotel and were arrested there.
The victim, described her attackers as ‘evil men who had destroyed her life.’
The trial began this week at Hove Crown Court and is expected to last four weeks. All three defendants deny the charges against them.
