Three asylum seekers living in a Home Office-funded hotel allegedly gang-raped a vulnerable woman on Brighton beach after targeting her because she was drunk, the Brighton beach rape trial has heard at Hove Crown Court.
The defendants are Karin Al-Danasurt, 20, an Egyptian from Horsham, Ibrahim Alshafe, 25, Egyptian from Horsham, and Abdulla Ahmadi, 26, Iranian from Crewe. All three deny the charges. The trial opened earlier this week. The men, who arrived via small boats and had pending asylum claims, were living in the hotel when the attack allegedly took place.
