Asylum seekers Ibrahim Alshafe, 26, and Abdulla Ahmadi, 26, have been jailed at Hove Crown Court for 21 years each for raping a woman on Brighton beach on 4 October 2025.
Karin Al-Danasurt, 21, who filmed the attack, has been sentenced to 18 years and six months in prison.
An earlier trial at the same court heard that the woman was targeted by the men after she became separated from her friends on a night out.
She was “staggering in the street” and “incapacitated”, the court heard.
Egyptian national Alshafe and Iranian national Ahmadi took her behind a beach hut and raped her.
Egyptian national Al-Danasurt went to the location moments later and filmed it.
Alshafe and Ahmadi were both found guilty of two counts of rape, while Al-Danasurt was found guilty of all four counts of rape as a secondary party.
Jurors returned their verdicts in the five-week trial after more than 12 hours of deliberation.
Footage shown to jurors showed Alshafe smiling during the attack.
He and Ahmadi claimed during the trial that the encounter was consensual, while Al-Danasurt claimed in court that he had tried to stop the attack by filming it.
Prosecutor Hanna Llewellyn-Waters KC had told jurors the woman recalled being spat on, kicked, and her throat being grabbed during the attack, as well as men laughing.
Giving evidence in the trial, the woman told the court: “It wasn’t consensual, it was not consensual. They are evil and they have ruined my life.”
Cross-examined from behind a screen in court, she cried as she said: “It’s the filmer’s face I see every time I close my eyes, laughing at me.”
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