THIS is the moment three asylum seekers enjoyed a BBQ at their migrant hotel after allegedly gang-raping a woman on a beach, a court heard.
Egyptian nationals Karin Al-Danasurt, 20, and Ibrahim Alshafe, 25, and Iranian national Abdulla Ahmadi, 26, after she became separated from her friends.
The defendants filmed themselves getting ready before the alleged rape
They also had a BBQ after the alleged attack
She later told police she was by the “laughing” men, jurors heard.
At the time, the trio were staying at Cisswood House Hotel in Horsham, West , which was Home Office-approved accommodation for asylum seekers, it was said.
Videos played to jurors shows the defendants having a BBQ in the grounds of the hotel the day after the alleged rape.
They had also filmed themselves getting ready for a night out before catching a bus into Brighton in October last year.
Once there, they allegedly targeted the woman as she left a nightclub in the seaside resort.
She had been at a bar with friends until around 3am 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 she was intoxicated at the time and “to all intents and purposes, incapacitated”.
She added: “Frankly, to these defendants, the complainant was meat.
“She was repeatedly abused for their sexual gratification and entertainment.”
The court heard the woman was “staggering in the street” alone when she was “targeted” by the three defendants.
Ms Llewellyn-Waters continued: “That targeting was not founded in good will or bonhomie, in high spirits – it was cynical, predatory and callous.”
Alshafe and Ahmadi took the woman to a location behind a beach shack and raped her “repeatedly”, jurors heard.
Al-Danasurt is alleged to have followed and although the woman did not know if he raped her, the prosecutor said he was “fully aware of what was happening”.
He is accused of “serving to encourage the commission of those rapes” by filming the alleged attack.
Jurors were shown footage of the “motionless” woman lying on her back with her eyes closed, while Ahmadi and Alshafe allegedly raped her.
One clip, found on Al-Danasurt’s phone, showed Ahmadi covering his face with his hand during the alleged attack.
She said she was left bloodied and was drifting in and out of consciousness during the assault.
The woman told the court she was left fearing the men would kill her and said she struggled to breathe as she was pinned down.
She added: “I don’t know why they done 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 were just laughing.
“They were violating me and recording me and laughing. I thought they were going to kill me.”
Jurors were told Alshafe and Ahmadi both entered the UK via small boat on June 19, 2025 – three months before the alleged rapes.
Al-Danasurt entered the country on October 11, 2024, it was said.
Ahmadi, from Crewe in , and Alshafe, who lives in Horsham, have each denied two counts of raping the woman.
Al-Danasurt, also from Horsham, is jointly charged on all four counts of rape as a secondary party “encouraging the rape by his actions at the scene, including filming it”, and has pleaded not guilty to all four.
He denies a fifth count of “sharing intimate films” without the complainant’s consent.
The trial continues.
Karin Al-Danasurt has denied raping a womanCredit: the sun
Ibrahim Alshafe is also accused of carrying out the attack in BrightonCredit: The sun
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