A map shown to the jury reveals the movements of three asylum seekers who partied in nightclubs before allegedly gang-raping a lone, drunk woman on Brighton beach.
In CCTV footage from a nightclub that was played in court yesterday, two of the defendants appear to be interacting with a friend of the alleged victim.
In one clip, she is allegedly grabbed by one of the asylum seekers in the foyer of Revolution nightclub in Brighton.
He appears to put his arm around her waist before she prises it off her and then gesticulates at him.
CCTV footage taken later in the evening shows three men dancing and talking to different female revellers in Horizon nightclub on the seafront.
Footage obtained from cameras along the seafront then captures the alleged victim being led down a ramp to the beach by the men.
Her reported movements have been put together by the CPS in a map that was shown to the jury on Tuesday.
Hanna Llewellyn-Waters, prosecuting, told the jury she was taken to a beach shack where she was raped by two of the defendants while another man filmed attack.
Egyptian national Ibrahim Alshafe, 25, and Iranian national Abdulla Ahmadi, 26, are accused of repeatedly raping the woman, while Karin Al-Danasurt, 20, from Egypt, allegedly filmed the assault and egged them on.
A map shown to the jury reveals the movements of three asylum seekers who partied in nightclubs before allegedly gang-raping a lone, drunk woman on Brighton beach
Pictured: Egyptian national Ibrahim Alshafe, 25, at an earlier court appearance. He is accused of rape
Karin Al-Danasurt, 20, from Egypt, is said to have allegedly filmed the rape and egged the others on
All the three men are charged with rape while Al-Danasurt is additionally charged with sharing an intimate film.
Earlier the court heard the three asylum seekers targeted a lone drunk woman in a ‘cynical, predatory and callous’ manner before gang raping her.
The men, who all arrived in the UK on small boats, allegedly targeted the woman as she left a nightclub in the seaside resort.
The jury was told the woman was so drunk she could barely stand and had described herself as ‘paralytic’ drunk.
After leaving a nightclub the ‘visibly intoxicated’ woman, who is in her 30s, was allegedly seen staggering along the seafront by the three men.
But instead of offering to help her the men are said to have led her down to the pebble beach and found a secluded area near a shack.
There they are accused of repeatedly raping her, with two of the men taking it in turns to assault her while the incident was filmed by the third man.
Hove Crown Court heard Alshafe and Ahmadi had arrived in the the UK by small boats in June 2025 while Al-Danasurt had arrived by the same method in October 2024.
All three men were staying at a Home Office-approved hotel for those either seeking or appealing their asylum and immigration status.
The alleged incident happened at around 6am on Saturday, October 4 last year on Brighton beach.
The jury of seven woman and five men were yesterday shown a catalogue of CCTV clips taken from both the Revolution and Horizon nightclubs.
One video clip appears to show Ahmadi and Alshafe in the foyer of Revolution nightclub where Ahmadi is allegedly shown grabbing the complainant’s friend.
Ahmadi is accused of putting his arm around her waist before she prises his arm off her and then gesticulates at him.
Other clips appear to show Alshafe putting his arms around an unknown blonde woman and groping her.
In another, Al-Danasurt is said to put his arms around an unknown brunette woman and strokes her bottom.
The three defendants allegedly walked out of the club and targeted the lone victim as she staggered down the street.
Earlier the complainant, describing herself as ‘paralytic drunk’, left Horizon nightclub but said she had no recollection of how she came to be on Brighton beach.
She remembered drifting in and out of consciousness while being repeatedly ‘abused’ by three men.
The jury heard that in video interview she said: ‘So at first it was like I was coming round and someone had their finger in my mouth and like was rubbing their finger in my mouth and it was almost like I kept falling back asleep.
‘Like every time I, I was there but I wasn’t, like it was such a weird experience. Like I’ve been drunk, I’m 30-odd, I’ve been drunk many a times, I’ve never had this like feeling before.
‘And like as I could remember like I could see a light in my face, like do you know like when you put a flash on a like on the camera on an iPhone and I could hear a foreign accent saying ‘Dirty b****, dirty b****’.
The trial continues.