An asylum-seeker charged with raping a woman on Brighton beach was a “nasty little predator”, a jury was told today (Thursday 9 April).
Ibrahim Alshafe, 25, had approached a number of women in a couple of night clubs but had been rebuffed, the jury was told.
Hanna Llewellyn-Waters, prosecuting, said: “You had been knocked back by several women that night.
“You were on the prowl with your two co-defendants at the end of the night, having been knocked back. The three of you settled on a woman who was entirely vulnerable.”
Alshafe said: “No she came. She approached us and she asked us to have sex with her.”
Miss Llewellyn-Waters said: “The suggestion by you that she wasn’t very drunk is, may I suggest, ridiculous.”
Alshafe said: “She wasn’t drunk. I don’t she was drunk. I thought that she had had a drink but she wasn’t drunk.”
Miss Llewellyn-Waters said: “You took her into the darkness and did what you wanted to her.”
Alshafe said: “No. We went down to the beach to have sex. She was in agreement and we were in agreement.”
Miss Llewellyn-Waters said: “You used and abused her for your sexual gratification. You thought her vulnerability was funny. You left her in pieces … You slapped her face and enjoyed her being treated as dirt.”
Alshafe said: “No. That didn’t happen. I was playful with her. It was foreplay. I was enjoying it and she was enjoying it.”
Miss Llewellyn-Waters said: “She was trash (to you) and that night you were nothing more than a nasty little predator.”
Alshafe said: “No. I was out for the evening. It was my first time in clubs and I got to the burger place to eat.
“And the day ended when she came to us and said she wanted to have sex and we went to the beach and that’s what happened.
“Maybe there were disputes and the impression she got when someone else (Karin Al-Danasurt) turned up.”
Miss Llewellyn-Waters said: “Nasty little predator.”
Earlier, she said: “This was a wintry night … cold and raining. It was a wet evening.”
She said that the complainant, a woman in her thirties whose identity is protected by law, had had become separated from her friends and was trying to find them.
But just yards along the A259 King’s Road from the seafront branch of Burger King, Alshafe said that the woman had approached him and moments later tried to put her hand down his trousers.
Alshafe said: “She asked me my name. She kissed me. She also brushed my hair and she said: ‘Wow!’”
Miss Llewellyn-Waters said: “About you?”
Alshafe said: “Yes.”
Miss Llewellyn-Waters said: “And so desperate was she to get inside your trousers that she tried to put her hands down the front of them right in front of the people in Burger King.
“What do you think it was that you had said or done that had created this magnetism?”
Alshafe said: “I was kissing her just like she was kissing me. I was standing there. She kissed Abdulla (Ahmadi) and then she kissed me.”
Miss Llewellyn-Waters said: “She didn’t kiss or touch any man at Revolution or Horizon – or at Burger King and that was just before she met you.
“What do you think it was about you that made you so irresistible to (her)?”
Alshafe said: “Maybe she noticed we were strangers for this country.”
Miss Llewellyn-Waters said that there had been no interaction between the complainant and the men when their paths crossed at Revolution, in West Street, Brighton, earlier in the evening – or later when they were all in Horizon, in King’s Road Arches, Brighton.
Alshafe said: “She said, ‘you like sex?’ She said, ‘come to sex.’”
Miss Llewellyn-Waters said: “And so it was that she couldn’t contain herself and touched both of you on the penis in the way that you say.”
Alshafe said: “She was standing on her feet and she could control herself.”
But Miss Llewellyn-Waters said: “She couldn’t control herself because she went up to two strangers and started to touch you!”
Alshafe said: “This is what happened.”
Miss Llewellyn-Waters said: “Don’t you think it odd that, on all the CCTV, not once is she shown touching your genitals?”
Alshafe said: “There must be cameras that show the time when she approached us and when she touched us.”
Miss Llewellyn-Waters said: “Unfortunately not … She was so desperate that, within seconds of getting to the beach, she started having sex with you.
“Nowhere on the CCTV on the walk to the beach does she touch you or Mr Ahmadi intimately.
“You say that, in the parts where there isn’t footage, she was all over you. But, in the parts where there is footage, she isn’t.”
Alshafe said: “She came. She approached us. She touched us and said let’s go down to the beach.”
Miss Llewellyn-Waters said: “Look at the state of her … She was very drunk. Her legs were not working properly. She was staggering. By the time she crossed the road, she had to be held up.
“You know full well what state she was in … And that’s why you targeted her because, unlike the other women who had rebuffed you, she was powerless to do so.”
Two of the three defendants are charged with the physical rape and the third man with encouraging what happened by filming it.
Abdulla Amih Ahmadi, 26, an Iranian, of Wistaston Road, Crewe, and Ibrahim Alshafe, 25, also Egyptian, also of Sandygate Lane, Lower Beeding, are each alleged to have raped the woman twice.
Karin Al-Danasurt, 20, an Egyptian, of Sandygate Lane, Lower Beeding, filmed the attack and is alleged to have to have later shared the footage.
The offences were alleged to have taken place at about 5am on Saturday 4 October 2025.
Miss Llewellyn-Waters said today that, in unchallenged evidence, the woman had spoken to her friends seven minutes after leaving the three men on Brighton seafront.
She was described as “wailing and hysterical, saying she has been raped”.
Alshafe replied: “When we left her she was good.”
The trial continues.
Filthy foreign scumbags! Diversity is shite! Stop importing rapists and paedophile’s, look after Britain’s women and girls! Even liberal lefties must now realise what a huge mistake this country has made. Useful idiots with suicidal empathy!
Let’s not minimise this poor lady’s trauma by shoehorning it into a petty racist remark. Remember that most sexual assaults are conducted by those known to the victim, and BAME people are more likely to be victims, according to ONS crime data.
What I do agree on is that we should always be looking at how we should be protecting everyone’s safety, be that more cameras, more patrols, education, and avoiding falling afoul of racist stereotyping.
Now that finally the authorities less likely to be afraid to tackle the related issue of migration and sexual assault, the figures now being published are horrific. You may still want to bury this and refer to stereotypes, but the truth is coming out, with especially Indian nationals at an increase in convictions between 2021 and 2024 of 257%, and Afghans and Eritreans also being particularly of note recently.
If you are truly concerned with this poor woman’s trauma (and all women in the UK now with the largest threat of predatory misogyny against them that we have ever known), then you really need to wake up and realise that this needs responsible and effective action.
Parroting claims by Reform’s Robert Jenrick, which have been heavily disputed and unproven, risks reinforcing harmful stereotypes. Blaming entire nationalities distracts.
We all want to keep people safe. The path to doing that is making sure we aren’t being led astray by emotive, but inflammatory, narratives. Rather, by weighing nuance, accuracy, logic, and considered solutions.
In this instance, the clear improvement is to ensure the beach is better monitored.
So Bame people attacked, sexually assaulted and raped by………. other Bame people! Problems and cultures we do not need!
Stop being so righteous! They are filthy foreign scumbags! Just as we have filthy homegrown scumbags! I did not mention a race, colour or creed. Where is the petty racist remark!
If you can’t see the racist and discriminatory connotation in your own words, and try to defend it with a semantic argument, then that’s really quite indicative of your own personal bias. And you clearly know this and are just trying to be inflammatory, evident from other comments you’d made. And BAME doesn’t mean from another country, so let’s not minimise this poor lady’s trauma by shoehorning it into petty, racist and puerile remarks – that’s the culture we do not need.
Do better.
I do not see! Perhaps you are looking to hard!
Not inflammatory, just an honest personal perspective. If it inflamed you, suck it up!
Then your words, by your own admission, honest and personal, come from a place of ignorance, I’m afraid, and you have plenty of opportunity to be a better person. You don’t need to affirm it to me, but do try to take a moment to reflect in the future.
Personally I find men violently raping women rather inflammatory!
exactly
I agree. But I would also not use that to justify xenophobia.
This is a serious case about an alleged violent crime, and it deserves to be treated with that level of gravity—not turned into a proxy argument where people talk past each other.
Benjamin, you’re right to push back on sweeping generalisations and to point out that inflaming tensions or stereotyping entire groups doesn’t help anyone. That matters, especially in cases like this where emotions run high. But the way you’re engaging comes across less like contributing to the discussion and more like trying to police how others are allowed to react. Telling people to “do better” or framing disagreement as moral failure tends to shut conversation down rather than improve it.
At the same time, others in the thread are clearly going too far in the opposite direction—using one horrific allegation to condemn broad groups of people. That leap isn’t grounded in evidence and distracts from the actual issue: a specific alleged crime, by specific individuals, that should be judged on facts in court.
If there’s a productive middle ground here, it’s this:
Take the allegation seriously, focus on the victim and the evidence, and talk about real measures that improve safety—without turning it into either moral grandstanding or blanket blame. Both extremes derail the conversation in different ways.