Fury has erupted over why a small boat migrant murderer who fled Egypt before committing a sex attack on an unconscious woman was staying in an asylum hotel in Brighton.
Violent thug 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.
It is believed the Egyptian national duped immigration officials by giving a false name, allowing him to lodge an asylum claim.
He fled Egypt in 2022, having been convicted of murder and spent two years living as a fugitive in Europe before making his way to 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 brutally raping a woman repeatedly as she walked home from a nightclub.
The verdict followed a five-week trial during which jurors heard the smirking offenders treated their defenceless victim like ‘meat’.
MPs reacted furiously on Thursday night, questioning how a convicted murderer managed to enter the UK and commit a heinous crime.
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said she worried about the number of men coming to the UK illegally with ‘backwards and medieval’ views on women.
Al-Danasurt grins as he was led to the prison van after court on Wednesday
The 20-year-old, pictured seated alongside co-defendants Abdulla Ahmadi (centre) and Ibrahim Alshafe (right), all entered the country illegally before sexually assaulting a vulnerable woman
Ms 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.’
Robert Jenrick, the former Tory immigration minister until 2023, who now represents Reform UK, said: ‘These evil men should never have been in our country. I couldn’t care less if they have a hard time back in Egypt, they should be deported so they never step foot in this country again.’
News of Al-Danasurt’s previous murder conviction has raised questions about how he was able to remain in the three-star Cisswood House Hotel in West Sussex.
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp also gave a damning response, saying British women and girls were being ‘put at risk every day’ by illegal migrants.
He 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.’
Mr Philp said migrant criminals could be deported within a week of arrival if the UK were to leave the European Convention on Human Rights.
Al-Danasurt filmed on his mobile phone as his companions repeatedly assaulted the woman, in her 30s, and she described drifting in and out of consciousness during the attack.
She 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.’
After the attack, the court heard the trio took a bus back to their asylum hotel and had a barbecue.
Al-Danasurt shamelessly told jurors at Hove Crown Court he was trying to ‘help’ the woman by building up evidence of the attack.
But he did nothing to stop the violent assaults on October 4 last year, carried out by his friends, who slapped and spat at the woman and made crude gestures.
When quizzed about consent, he told the jury ‘rape is sex’.
All three were failed asylum seekers. It is understood they have each lodged an appeal against the decision.
Only now can it be revealed Al-Danasurt fled Egypt in 2022, having been convicted of murder, facing a lengthy sentence or even the death penalty.
He spent two years living as a fugitive in Europe before making his way to the UK.
When police searched Al-Danasurt’s room at the migrant hotel Cisswood House in Horsham, West Sussex, the shocking details of the 20-year-old’s past were uncovered.
Alshafe, also from Egypt, was convicted alongside his two co-defendants
Iranian national Ahmadi was convicted by jurors, who deliberated for more than 16 hours
The victim of the callous attack left the nightclub shortly after 5am and made her way along the seafront, before being attacked behind a shed on Brighton Beach
Officials have now vowed to deport Al-Danasurt and his two accomplices, also small-boat migrants.
But the case yet again exposes the fragility of the UK’s borders, with Al-Danasurt among the plethora of small-boat migrants thought to have slipped into the country under an alias.
Al-Danasurt arrived in the UK by small boat 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 routinely refused entry to the UK, meaning he should never have been in the country.
He was later granted a room at Cisswood House Hotel, Home Office-approved accommodation, where he met fellow Egyptian Alshafe. The pair became roommates, given they were both from the same North African nation.
Details of Al-Danasurt’s criminal past emerged at a plea hearing in November last year, ahead of the trial, but the judge withdrew the evidence from the case after his defence team contested the conviction.
However, jurors did not know he was wanted for murder. They deliberated for 16 hours and 28 minutes before finding Al-Danasurt guilty of four counts of rape, with Ahmadi and Alshafe found guilty of two counts of rape each.
Prosecutor Hanna Llewellyn-Waters KC told the court there were ‘ongoing inquiries’ about Al-Danasurt’s crimes abroad.
All three defendants are now deemed foreign national offenders, meaning they can be considered for deportation.
However, there are fears they may seek to appeal the decision on human rights grounds.
Border Security and Asylum Minister Alex Norris said: ‘The perpetrators have now been rightly convicted. Once sentencing has taken place, we will move to deport them off British soil.’
The trio will be sentenced on July 15.
