Failed asylum seeker exposed as convicted killer after Brighton beach gang rape

A failed Egyptian asylum seeker, who participated in a gang rape of a woman on a beach with his accomplices, has been identified as a convicted murderer.

Karin Al-Danasurt was attempting to avoid the death penalty in his home country when he crossed the Channel in a small boat.

He was convicted today for being part of a group that dragged a woman to a beach in Brighton and raped her.

Al-Danasurt recorded the heinous attack while fellow asylum seekers Ibrahim Alshafe, 25, and Iranian national Abdulla Ahmadi, 26, treated the victim "like meat."

Ahmadi and Alshafe were also unanimously found guilty of raping the woman.

It was revealed that when police searched Al-Danasurt’s room at the migrant hotel Cisswood House in Horsham, West Sussex, his disturbing past was uncovered in his asylum application.

The offender claimed he needed asylum after being wrongly convicted of murder, which carries the death penalty in Egypt.

A court in Egypt found him guilty in absentia after he traveled across the Mediterranean to Europe before entering England in October 2024.

But Al-Danasurt attempted to claim the conviction was a case of mistaken identity and blamed his brother for the killing.

The conviction was mentioned in a previous court hearing, but the jurors at the rape trial were not informed about it.

A judge excluded the evidence from the case after Al-Danasurt’s defense team challenged the conviction.

The lawyers also stated that the UK Government’s assessment of Egypt suggests that someone who is openly critical of the government is likely to be at risk of serious harm.

This meant that jurors at the rape trial were unaware of his history when they heard he, Alshafe, and Ahmadi "repeatedly abused [the woman] for their sexual gratification and entertainment."

In a chilling prolonged attack, the trio laughed as they kicked the woman and spat on her while recording the horror in Brighton.

As she drifted in and out of consciousness, the terrified victim feared for her life as the men pinned her down.

Alshafe and Ahmadi both entered the UK via a small boat on June 19, 2025—three months before the rape.

The jurors heard how the perpetrators attempted to blame each other for the despicable crime, but all three had been "on the prowl" for women throughout the evening.

They filmed themselves preparing for a night out before taking a bus into Brighton in October last year.

Once there, the migrants targeted the woman as she left a nightclub in the seaside resort.

She had been at a bar with friends until around 3 a.m. before going to a nightclub near the beach.

The woman told police she remembered "taking drinks off this Asian man" before she was sick in the toilet.

She added: "After that, I don’t remember anything."

Prosecutor Hanna Llewellyn-Waters said the victim was intoxicated at the time and "to all intents and purposes, incapacitated."

The court heard that the woman was "staggering in the street" alone when she was "targeted" by the three defendants.

Ms. Llewellyn-Waters continued: "That targeting was not rooted in goodwill or high spirits—it was cynical, predatory, and callous."

Alshafe and Ahmadi took the woman to a spot behind a beach hut and raped her "repeatedly."

Al-Danasurt followed, and although the woman did not know if he raped her, the prosecutor said he was "fully aware of what was happening."

He was said to have "encouraged the commission of those rapes" by filming the attack.

Jurors were shown disturbing footage of the "motionless" woman lying on her back with her eyes closed, while Ahmadi and Alshafe raped her.

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

The group also called her a "dirty b***h" as they laughed and took turns spitting on her.

She stated that she was left bloodied and drifted in and out of consciousness during the assault.

During her harrowing testimony, the woman told the court she feared the men would kill her and said she struggled to breathe as she was pinned down.

She added: "I don’t know why they did it to me. I’m a nice person.

"I hug everybody, I just thought ‘Why are you doing this to me’.

"I remember saying that, ‘Why are you doing this to me,’ and they just laughed.

"They violated me and recorded me while laughing. I thought they were going to kill me."

Following the horror, the defendants filmed themselves having a BBQ in the asylum hotel grounds.

Ahmadi, from Crewe in Cheshire, and Alshafe, who resides in Horsham, each denied two counts of raping the woman.

Al-Danasurt, also from Horsham, faced all four rape charges as a secondary party for "encouraging the rape by his actions at the scene, including filming it," and pleaded not guilty to all charges.

A further charge of "sharing intimate films" against Al-Danasurt was withdrawn after it was established that the offense can only be tried in a magistrates’ court.

Prosecutor Hanna Llewellyn-Waters KC informed the court there were "ongoing inquiries at a very senior level" about Al-Danasurt’s crimes abroad.

She said he had also received a caution in the UK for criminal damage in April last year but was "not in a position" to provide further details.

The prosecutor stated it was "not a foregone conclusion that these defendants will be deported."

Border security and asylum minister Alex Norris stated: "Once sentencing has taken place, we will move to deport them off British soil."

All three men, who are currently appealing after their asylum applications were denied, will be sentenced on July 15.