Two asylum seekers repeatedly raped a woman on Brighton beach while a third one filmed the incident in a "cynical, predatory and callous" attack, jurors have been told. Egyptian nationals Karin Al-Danasurt, 20, and Ibrahim Alshafe, 25, and Iranian national Abdulla Ahmadi, 26, allegedly targeted the woman.

She was allegedly approached by the men in the early hours of October 4 last year, after she became separated from her friends while on a night out. Al-Danasurt is also accused of having filmed the alleged rapes, later sending the recordings to Ahmadi's phone, a trial at Hove Crown Court heard on Tuesday.

Jurors were told they would be shown the footage during the course of the trial.

At the time of the alleged offences, all three defendants knew each other and were residents at the Cisswood House Hotel in Horsham, West Sussex, which was Home Office-approved accommodation for asylum seekers, jurors were told.

Alshafe and Ahmadi both entered the UK via small boat on June 19, 2025, three months before the alleged rapes, and Al-Danasurt entered the country on October 11, 2024, the court heard.

The woman told police she recalled being spat on, kicked, and her throat being grabbed during the alleged rapes, as well as men laughing, Prosecutor Hanna Llewellyn-Waters told jurors.

She told jurors the complainant was intoxicated at the time of the alleged rapes and "to all intents and purposes, incapacitated".

After the alleged rapes, the complainant "crawled off the beach" and was captured on CCTV coming up the ramp to the esplanade alongside Alshafe, the prosecutor added.

She said: "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 them."

Ahmadi, from Crewe in Cheshire, 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.