One of three illegal immigrants found guilty of the horrific gang rape of a woman in Britain fled Egypt after being convicted of murder and was living in taxpayer-funded hotel accommodation.
Iranian Kurd Abdullah Ahmadi, 26, and Egyptians Ibrahim Alshafe, 25, and Karin Al-Danasurt, 20, were convicted on Thursday of the brutal rape of a woman, 33, behind a beach hut in Brighton on October 4 last year.
The sickening crime sparked fury in the UK, which erupted again when it was revealed that Al-Danasurt, who was photographed grinning as he was led to court, managed to escape Egypt in 2022 after his murder conviction and lived in Europe for two years before crossing the channel by small boat.
The fugitive was then housed in an “asylum hotel” in West Sussex where he met Alshafe, who had entered the UK illegally from France on the same boat as Ahmadi on June 19 that year.
On the night of the gang rape the trio groped other women before following their heavily intoxicated victim out of a nightclub at 5.45am and leading her behind a Beach Patrol shack where Ahmadi and Alshafe raped her while Al-Danasurt filmed, called her a “dirty b*tch”, and forced open her mouth and spat in it.
After the attack the rapists took a bus back to their hotel and filmed themselves having a barbecue in the grounds.
During cross-examination Al-Danasurt was asked why he filmed the rape and replied: “I see sex in front of me.”
“No, there’s lots of different types of sex, you were witnessing a rape,” Crown prosecutor Hanna Llewellyn-Waters said.
“That’s what I saw. Rape to me is sex,” Al-Danasurt responded, and when asked about whether he thought there was “any distinction” between someone who can or cannot consent to sex, he said via an Arabic interpreter that he did not understand the question.
He later claimed he filmed the rape to “stop them and protect myself”, the Daily Mail reported.
Alshafe and Ahmadi were both found guilty of two counts of rape by a jury of seven women and five men after 16 hours and 38 minutes of deliberation, and Al-Danasurt was found guilty of all four counts of rape as a secondary party.
The revelation that Al-Danasurt was able to enter and remain in the UK despite his murder conviction led to condemnation from MPs, including Reform UK’s Robert Jenrick, who welcomed Afghan refugees into Britain and failed to stop illegal migrants while immigration minister under the previous Conservative government.
“These evil men should never have been in our country. I couldn’t care less if they have a hard time back in Egypt, they should be deported so they never step foot in this country again,” he said.
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp also said: “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 men are entering the country by small boat.”
All three men are now facing deportation, although they may be able to appeal on human rights grounds.
Header image: Left, Karin Al-Danasurt (Sussex Police). Right, the three rapists getting ready to go out on the night of the attack (supplied).
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