Three migrants accused of gang-raping a woman on Brighton beach had a barbecue at their asylum hotel hours after the alleged assault, a court has heard.
Egyptian national Ibrahim Alshafe, 25, and Iranian national Abdulla Ahmadi, 26, are accused of repeatedly raping the 33-year-old woman on October 4 last year.
Karin Al-Danasurt, 20, from Egypt, allegedly filmed the assault and egged them on. He is also accused of rape.
The men are said to have filmed themselves getting ready for a night out before catching a bus into Brighton.
A video of them in a room at the asylum hotel where they were all living was shown to the jury.
Separate clips of Alshafe and Ahmadi allegedly having sex with the woman behind a beach hut have also been played in court.
After getting a bus back to their hotel after the alleged rape, the migrants reportedly filmed themselves having a barbecue in the hotel grounds.
In the clip, one of the defendants appears to be smoking while they cook meat on a portable barbeque.
The men are said to have filmed themselves getting ready for a night out before catching a bus into Brighton.
After getting a bus back to their hotel after the alleged rape, the migrants are said to have filmed themselves having the barbecue in the hotel grounds.
The three defendants are said to have partied at a barbecue at their asylum hotel after raping a woman.
The court heard Alshafe and Ahmadi had arrived in the UK by small boats in June 2025, while Al-Danasurt arrived by the same method in September 2024.
They were all staying at a Home Office-approved hotel for those either seeking or appealing their asylum and immigration status, jurors were told.
Al-Danasurt said all three took the bus together to Brighton on the night of the alleged assault.
The court heard he went to the Horizon nightclub just before 3.30am where he met the other two men and stayed until closing time at 5am.
Al Danasurt accused both of his co-defendants of lying about what happened after they left the club.
He told the jury through an interpreter he had tried to pull them off the woman and that he only filmed the incident to gather evidence for police.
He also denied spitting on the woman.
The jury heard Alshafe allegedly groped another woman at the Horizon club and told her he was looking for a British bride.
He said he did not want to go back to his country as he touched the young woman in a Brighton nightclub, the court was told.
Asylum seeker Ibrahim Alshafe pictured at Brighton Magistrates' Court. He allegedly raped a lone drunk female on a beach after spending part of the evening chatting up another woman.
Karin Al-Danasurt pictured outside court. He allegedly filmed the attack and egged them on and is additionally charged with sharing intimate videos of the attack.
Alshafe told her he had travelled to the UK to marry a British woman and get citizenship.
The jury have been told Iranian Kurd Abdulla Amih Ahmadi left the Home Office run hotel in Sussex the day after the barbecue.
Hanna Llewellyn-Waters, prosecuting, said Ahmadi left the hotel on October 5, in a 'unapproved move'.
'He was marked as absconding after self departing,' she said.
Attempts made by asylum accommodation teams failed and he did not return to the hotel.
The court heard Ahmadi left a forwarding address in Crewe with the hotel. He was arrested on October 12 in Crewe.
The woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, described her attackers as evil men who had ruined her life.
Sussex Police said the woman was attacked at the lower esplanade in the early hours of Saturday, October 4 last year.
The court heard Alshafe, 25, arrived on a small boat on June 19 last year with Abdulla Ahmadi and both were housed at the hotel from June 21.
Alshafe, 25, denies two counts of rape. Ahmadi also denies two counts of rape.
Egyptian Karin Al-Danasurt denies four counts of rape and one of sharing three video clips.
The trial at Lewes Crown Court in Hove continues.