{"id":546657,"date":"2026-04-23T15:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/546657\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:49:10","slug":"three-men-guilty-of-callous-brighton-beach-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/546657\/","title":{"rendered":"Three men guilty of &#8216;callous&#8217; Brighton beach rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ahmadi told jurors he left Iran because he was working for a Kurdish opposition party and was being looked for by the country&#8217;s secret police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Egyptian national Alshafe, a former carpenter, said he came to the UK for a better life. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His asylum application had been refused the night before the rape, the trial heard. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pair arrived in the country in 2025, while Al-Danasurt came the year before. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Holly Morton, from the Crown Prosecution Service, thanked the victim for her bravery in reporting what happened. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;None of us can begin to imagine what the woman went through that night,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The men are due to be sentenced on 15 July. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahmadi told jurors he left Iran because he was working for a Kurdish opposition party and was being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-546657","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\/546657","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=546657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}