A SMALL-boat migrant involved in the gang rape of a woman on Brighton Beach came to the UK to escape a murder conviction in Egypt.
, 20, and two other boat migrants were yesterday found guilty of raping a woman
Small boat migrant Karin Al-Danasurt, who fled a murder conviction in Egypt, was put up in a taxpayer-funded asylum hotel Credit: PA
Al-Danasurt was found guilty of raping a woman who was spat on and kicked in Brighton Credit: Sussex Police
Al-Danasurt and his accomplices film themselves hours before beach attack Credit: Sussex Police
The victim was left fearing for her life after the men dragged her on to the beach last October.
The jury had not been told of Al-Danasurt’s history before he fled his home country in 2025.
In an earlier appearance, it emerged he wrote on his asylum application that he was convicted of murder in his absence in .
He tried to claim mistaken identity and blamed his brother for the killing.
Murder is a capital offence in Egypt.
It raises serious questions about how he was able to remain in three-star Cisswood House Hotel in nearby Horsham, West Sussex.
Shadow Home Secretary said last night: “Scumbags like this murderer and rapist — who is also an illegal immigrant — should not be put up in cushy hotels at taxpayers’ expense.
“This case shows that we have no idea what kind of — 70,000 of them since became Prime Minister.
“We have seen terrorists, extremists, rapists and now a murderer coming in.
“British women and girls are being put at risk every day by these
“That’s why we need to leave the European Convention on Human Rights and deport them all within a week of arrival.”
The insisted that all asylum claimants undergo mandatory security checks to establish their identity and check their records against international crime data.
A source said those checks had taken place in this case.
Jurors at Hove crown court also found Iranian Abdulla Ahmadi, 26, and Egyptian Ibrahim Alshafe, 25, guilty of two counts of rape after deliberating for 14 hours.
The pair had arrived here on the same small-boat Channel crossing in September 2024.
Al-Danasurt, who filmed the attack on his phone, was jointly convicted on all four counts of rape.
He had arrived here on a dinghy in June 2025.
All three are failed asylum seekers, and are currently appealing against the Home Office’s decision.
After their conviction, the Home Office said they would move to deport them, although their removals could be mired by legal issues.
The four-week trial heard the woman was pinned down, spat on, kicked and had her throat grabbed after being dragged behind a beach hut by the “predatory pack” early on October 4.
Jurors were told she feared the laughing attackers would kill her as she lapsed in and out of consciousness.
Video showed the men celebrating their horrific .
Al-Danasurt’s background raises questions about how he was able to remain in three-star Cisswood House Hotel in nearby Horsham Credit: Alamy
The vile trio attacked their victim on Brighton Beach Credit: Alamy
They were seen joking and getting ready together before the attack.
Afterwards they had a barbecue that evening, around the time the woman was waiting to be medically examined.
Al-Danasurt struggled to understand consent and told the court: “Rape, to me, is sex.”
The 33-year-old victim previously told the court that she feared she might have been drugged.
How did fiends end up in UK?
KARIN AL-DANASURT
According to Karin Al-Danasurt, he was born on June 22, 2005, in Egypt and went to school there until the age of 11.
Nothing is known of his teenage years but he told UK police he left Egypt to come to this country in June 2022.
However he didn’t arrive until October 2024.
After a few days in a detention centre he was moved to the Cisswood House Hotel in Horsham – Home Office-approved accommodation for asylum seekers.
This was despite him writing in his Home Office asylum application that he was convicted of murder in his absence in Egypt.
After fellow Egyptian Ibrahim Alshafe arrived at the hotel in 2025, the pair became roommates in Room 5.
IBRAHIM ALSHAFE
He was born in and lived in Alexandria, Egypt with his two sisters.
His older brother had already sought asylum in Italy.
Alshafe went to school in Egypt at the age of six and left at 14 and later joined the Army where he served for three years.
He had a relationship with a woman called Sara though he told police they were never intimate.
He said he decided to quit Egypt after leaving the Army as the financial situation was dire and he wanted to create a future for himself.
He told UK authorities that while trying to make his way to Europe via Libya he and his group of migrants were kidnapped by an unknown militia.
He said they were taken to a camp where they had to phone family and ask them to pay a ransom before they were released and allowed to continue on their journey.
He said: ‘I was beaten and insulted and the marks on my body still exist. I tried a second attempt and I arrived in Italy in May 2025.’
Alshafe claimed he had to raise £1,100 to get money for the small boat traffickers and was stopped by UK Border Force after leaving France.
It was on the small boat he says he first met Abdulla Ahmadi.
ABDULLA AHMADI
Ahmadi was born in Iran into a Kurdish community and says he had no formal education.
He said he was an only child and told UK authorities his father died when he was 13 and he had worked as a labourer and farm hand.
His mother, he said, was not in good health and suffered with kidney problems and he himself broke his shoulder, making it difficult to work.
Asked why he left Iran he said he had worked as a volunteer for the Democratic Party for Iranian Kurdistan – a hardline separatist party responsible for advocating self-determination for Kurdish people in Iran.
It has been behind recent opposition to the regime and is banned and declared a terrorist by Iran and thus not able to operate openly in the country.
Ahmadi said: ‘I was discovered by security police. If I hadn’t left I would have been arrested and killed.’
He said he escaped the country with assistance from his uncle and eventually found his way to France.
Ahmadi said he met Alshafe on the boat and although he understood only basic Arabic, the pair made friends.
They were both sent to Cisswood House Hotel after being apprehended by UK Border Force.
She said: “I woke on the beach with the light and the sea and the seagulls.
“The men were all spitting on me.
“I was asking them to stop and they wouldn’t.
“They were just laughing at me.
“They really thought it was funny.
“All I see is them laughing at me every time I close my eyes.
“It wasn’t consensual at all.”
She told the court the men had ruined her life, adding: “Every day I can’t sleep.
“Every time I close my eyes, I see them laughing at me, tormenting me.”
Al-Danasurt had denied recording the videos as “trophies” to show off to other migrants at the hotel.
The jury had not been told of Al-Danasurt’s history before he fled his home country in 2025Credit: Refer to source
Timeline of the horrific attack Credit: Sussex Police
Alshafe described slapping the unconscious woman across the face as “foreplay”.
Ahmadi “posed for the boys” during the attack, according to prosecutor Hanna Llewellyn-Waters KC.
During cross examination, she described the men as “egging each other on” and acting “like a pack”.
Ms Llewellyn-Waters told the court: “Frankly, to these defendants, the complainant was meat.
“She was repeatedly abused for their sexual gratification and entertainment.
“They wanted sex and that could be achieved by being with someone who was in no state to resist.”
The day after the attack Ahmadi, whose asylum application had already been turned down, left the hotel and moved to an address 200 miles away in Crewe, where he was arrested on October 12.
It later emerged Alshafe’s application had been rejected on the day the group travelled to Brighton.
The three men were convicted after turning on each other in court.
Alshafe tried to deny even knowing Al-Danasurt despite being his roommate in the hotel.
The judge also had to tell the men to stop laughing and joking in the dock.
A separate charge of sharing intimate films without consent was withdrawn as the charge can only be heard in a magistrates’ court.
The trio will be sentenced on July 15.
Border Security and Asylum Minister Alex Norris said: “What this woman 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.
“Once sentencing has taken place, we will move to deport them off British soil.”
Holly Morton, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “This was an utterly appalling and violent attack.
“These men targeted her in a cynical, predatory and callous way, dragging her to a secluded spot, before repeatedly raping her for their own sexual gratification.
“None of us can begin to imagine what she went through that night.
“Thanks to the victim’s bravery we have been able to bring these dangerous men to justice and ensure they cannot target women again.”
Al-Danasurt’s defence barrister disputed that he had been convicted of murder.
The fiends had a BBQ after the attack Credit: Sussex Police
Jurors at Hove trial centre crown court found Iranian Abdulla Ahmadi, above, guilty of two counts of rape after deliberating for 14 hours Credit: Sussex Police
Egyptian Ibrahim Alshafe, 25, was also found guilty of rape Credit: Sussex Police
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