Brighton Women's team members Abdulla Ahmadi, Ibrahim Alshafe, and Karin Al-Danasurt have been found guilty of raping a woman on Brighton beach in a 'cynical, predatory and callous attack'. The three men, who are asylum seekers, were convicted at Hove Crown Court on Thursday. The victim was left 'too scared to go out' following the rape. The men were living at a Home Office hotel near Horsham at the time of the offence. Prosecutors have claimed that Al-Danasurt was convicted of murder in Egypt before he crossed the Channel into the UK on a small boat, although his defence barrister has disputed this. He had also been given a caution in the UK for criminal damage in April last year, prosecutors said. The court heard that the men targeted the woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, after she became separated from her friends on a night out. She was 'highly intoxicated' to the extent that she was on her hands and knees vomiting into a toilet and could not stand unaided. The woman said to police the men laughed as they kicked her and grabbed her throat during the rape - leaving her with bruises. Al-Danasurt was accused of spitting in the woman's face while recording the attack. The men were 'on the lookout for women that night for sexual purposes' as they visited bars and nightclubs on Brighton seafront. Alshafe told the court he was a virgin looking for a British bride. After leaving a club, the men crossed paths with the woman at a fast-food restaurant and they all went to the beach. 'She didn't know what was lying in wait for her,' said the prosecutor. 'She didn't know she was being led into the darkness to be used as a sexual plaything.' 'Frankly, to these defendants, the complainant was meat,' Llewellyn-Waters added. The woman told the jury the men were 'evil' and had 'ruined' her life. Breaking down in tears, she said every time she closed her eyes she saw 'the filmer's face' laughing at her. The woman added she regained consciousness lying on the beach and though
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Brighton Women's Team Guilty of 'Callous' Brighton Beach Rape
Three men found guilty of raping a woman on Brighton beach in a 'cynical, predatory and callous attack'. Brighton Women's team members Abdulla Ahmadi, Ibrahim Alshafe, and Karin Al-Danasurt convicted at Hove Crown Court.
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