A man accused of filming a woman being raped by two others on Brighton beach has told a court he recorded the alleged attack as he was “trying to stop them”.
Egyptian nationals Karin Al-Danasurt and Ibrahim Alshafe, plus Iranian national Abdulla Ahmadi, allegedly targeted the woman in a “cynical, predatory and callous” attack during the early hours of 4 October, 2025.
Alshafe, 25, of Lower Beeding in West Sussex, and Ahmadi, 26, of Crewe in Cheshire, are accused of repeatedly raping the woman, which they both deny.
Al-Danasurt, 20, recorded the incident, a trial at Hove Crown Court has been told.
Al-Danasurt is jointly charged with rape as a secondary party “encouraging the rape by his actions at the scene, including filming it”. He has also pleaded not guilty.
Jurors heard the woman had become separated from her friends while on a girls’ night out.
Prosecutors said the three defendants approached her when she was “staggering in the street” alone.
’God will expose you’
Giving evidence on Tuesday, Al-Danasurt said of his three recordings that he was trying to get Alshafe and Ahmadi to stop and also to “defend himself” so he could tell someone what happened.
Speaking through an Arabic interpreter, he said: “I told them: ‘What are you doing? Guys this is haram, forbidden, this is fornication, stop.”
He said he saw it was a “horrible situation”.
He added: “This is the first time in my life I see something like that.
”The girl, she wasn’t able to breathe normally or to take a breath.”
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