Overview
- The three defendants were sentenced at Hove Crown Court on Wednesday, 15 July 2026, with Ibrahim Alshafe and Abdulla Ahmadi each jailed for 21 years and Karin Al-Danasurt given 18 years and six months, and all receiving an additional six years on extended licence.
- A jury found Alshafe and Ahmadi guilty of two counts of rape and found Al-Danasurt guilty on four counts as a secondary party for encouraging and filming the attack.
- Prosecutors relied on mobile phone footage shown to jurors that captured the assault being filmed and depicted an attacker grinning, and the victim, who remains anonymised, read an impact statement describing lasting psychological harm.
- Court evidence established the three men were living in Home Office-approved hotel accommodation in Lower Beeding and that Alshafe and Ahmadi arrived in the UK after a small-boat crossing from France in June 2025.
- Border security minister Alex Norris said the government will seek deportation after the sentences and will move to deny refugee protections to convicted sex offenders while officials pursue separate risk assessments and legal steps.