An asylum seeker who smiled and stuck his tongue out to his friend while he was allegedly raping a woman on Brighton beach has denied "celebrating her humiliation".
Ibrahim Alshafe, 25, is on trial alongside co-defendants Karin Al-Danasurt, 20, and Abdulla Ahmadi, 26, for allegedly targeting the woman in a “cynical, predatory and callous” attack in the early hours of October 4, 2025.
Alshafe and Ahmadi are accused of repeatedly raping the woman on the East Sussex beach, while Al-Danasurt filmed the incident.
Alshafe said at Hove Crown Court on Wednesday, April 8 that he understood the woman wanted to have sex with him, adding: “I swear I didn’t rape her.”
The Egyptian national previously told the court the woman came up to himself and Ahmadi, kissing them and touching them so they believed she wanted to have sex.
A video was shown to jurors at Hove Crown Court in which Alshafe is seen smiling with his tongue out and making a hand gesture towards his friend filming.
He said he did not know he was being filmed and was just responding to a gesture made towards him.
At the time of the alleged offences, all three defendants knew each other and were residents at a Home Office-approved hotel accommodation for asylum seekers near Horsham, West Sussex, jurors have heard.
Alshafe, of Lower Beeding, and Iranian national Ahmadi, of Crewe in Cheshire, have each denied two counts of raping the woman.
Egyptian national Al-Danasurt, also of Lower Beeding, is jointly charged on all four rape counts as a secondary party “encouraging the rape by his actions at the scene, including filming it”, and has pleaded not guilty to all four charges.
He denies a fifth count of “sharing intimate films” without the complainant’s consent. The charge relates to an allegation that Al-Danasurt sent recordings of the alleged rapes to Ahmadi’s phone via Snapchat shortly after the incident.
in "The Mirror"
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