Three Asylum Seekers Convicted of Brighton Gang Rape to Face Deportation Following July Sentencing

The UK Home Office confirmed it will move to deport three migrants convicted of gang-raping a woman in Brighton, with the action set to follow their sentencing in July. Abdulla Ahmadi, 26, from Iran, Ibrahim Alshafe, 25, from Egypt, and Karin Al-Danasurt, 20, from Egypt, were found guilty of attacking the woman in the early hours of October 4, 2025.

Each faces a deportation order alongside prison sentences.

The three men arrived in Britain by small boat and had their asylum claims rejected. Ahmadi and Alshafe crossed the Channel together in June 2025. They met Al-Danasurt while housed at Cisswood House, a former hotel near Horsham used by the Home Office for asylum seekers.

All three were acquainted and living together at the asylum seeker accommodation near Horsham at the time of the offense. New rules introduced in 2025 mean foreign nationals placed on the sex offenders register automatically lose asylum protections.

GB News reported that Al-Danasurt's deportation could face legal challenges due to a murder charge in Egypt, where the death penalty applies, potentially invoking human rights laws.

The victim told the court: “My skin crawls because of what they did to me. Prosecutors said Al-Danasurt sought asylum to avoid a murder charge in Egypt. Government figures show 5,634 foreign offenders were removed from the UK in the year to December 2025, an 11 percent increase.

Alshafe paid £1,500 to smugglers to cross the Channel. He had previously been captured by Libyan pirates before traveling through Europe. Alshafe told the court he had been seeking a British wife who could grant him citizenship.