{"id":480794,"date":"2026-03-17T18:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/480794\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T18:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:34:07","slug":"brighton-beach-rape-cynical-predatory-callous-court-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/480794\/","title":{"rendered":"Brighton beach rape &#8216;cynical, predatory, callous&#8217;, court told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jurors were told on Tuesday that Alshafe and Ahmadi took the woman to a location behind a beach shack and raped her &#8220;repeatedly&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Although she could not definitively say whether she was also raped by Al-Danasurt, the prosecution alleges he was &#8220;fully aware of what was happening&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Llewellyn-Waters said that DNA from Alshafe and Ahmadi matched samples from a forensic medical examination of the woman and forensic evidence related to Al-Danasurt was inconclusive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The court heard that the woman said to police that she was spat on, kicked and her throat was grabbed during the alleged attacks, and that the men were laughing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Llewellyn-Waters said that the woman &#8220;crawled off the beach&#8221; and was captured on CCTV leaving the beach alongside Alshafe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Google Translate entered into his telephone within a couple of minutes of them coming into shot details him telling her to &#8216;unlock it&#8217;, presumably her phone,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The prosecutor said she was &#8220;far from wanting to give him her number&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All three defendants knew each other before the incident and were housed by the Home Office in the same hotel at the time, the jury heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The court was told that Ahmadi left the hotel the day after the alleged rapes and moved to an address in Crewe, where he was later arrested, without Home Office approval.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The jury was also told that Alshafe and Ahmadi entered the UK via small boat three months before the alleged rapes and that Al-Danasurt had entered the country a year before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trial is expected to continue for four weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jurors were told on Tuesday that Alshafe and Ahmadi took the woman to a location behind a beach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-480794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}