Fury erupts over migrant murderer who fled death penalty in Egypt before raping unconscious woman on Brighton beach
The victim was targeted as she was “staggering in the street” and “incapacitated” in the early hours of October 4 last year.
A convicted murder facing the death penalty in his native Egypt went on to rape an unconscious woman on Brighton beach after lying his way into the UK.
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Karin Al-Danasurt was trying to escape the death penalty in his native country when he crossed the Channel in a small boat in 2024. He is understood to have given a false name when questioned by UK immigration officials.
He fled Egypt in 2022 and spent two years in Europe before making his way into the UK.
Al-Danasurt, 20, and fellow asylum seekers Ibrahim Alshafe, 25, also from Egypt, and Abdulla Ahmadi, 26, from Iran, were found guilty of raping a woman repeatedly as she walked home from a nightclub.
After the attack, the court heard the trio took a bus back to their asylum hotel and had a barbecue.
A video of Al-Danasurt wearing filtered sunglasses in a selfie with a lit barbecue was also shown in court.
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said: “There are people who are taking our country for a ride, are coming here trying to claim asylum, which is for genuine refugees, when really they come here to do harm to others.
“As a woman in particular, I do worry so much about a lot of men coming here with attitudes that are backwards and medieval and thinking that they can do whatever they like. We need to be very tough on them.”
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp told The Sun: “Scumbags like this murderer and rapist - who is also an illegal immigrant - should not be put up in cushy hotels at taxpayers' expense.
“This case shows that we have no idea what kind of men are entering the country by small boat - 70,000 of them since Keir Starmer became Prime Minister.”
Al-Danasurt filmed the rapes on his mobile phone. His victim told the court: “I was begging them to stop and they wouldn't. Every time I close my eyes I can see them laughing at me. Every night it bothers me.
“They thought it was funny. They have literally ruined my whole life.”
Al-Danasurt arrived in the UK on October 11, 2024. He gave his name as Karin Abdulaziz Al-Danasurt, and said he was born on June 22, 2005.
This would have made him 19 when he arrived in the UK, and no older than 17 when he murdered someone back in Egypt.
Foreign criminals are refused entry to the UK, meaning he should never have been in the country.
All three of the criminals are now deemed foreign national offenders, meaning they can be considered for deportation.