Three asylum seekers have been found guilty over the rape of a woman on Brighton beach.

The woman had been separated from her friends on a night out when the trio found her "staggering in the street" alone, Hove Crown Court heard.

Ibrahim Alshafe, 25, from Egypt, and Abdulla Ahmadi, 26, from Iran, had both denied two counts each of raping the woman on 4 October last year. They were found guilty.

Egyptian national Karin Al-Danasurt, 20, was jointly charged on all four rape counts as a secondary party "encouraging the rape by his actions at the scene, including filming it".

He had pleaded not guilty to all the charges and a fifth - of "sharing intimate films" without the complainant's consent - after allegedly sending footage of the alleged attack to Ahmadi on Snapchat.

Al-Danasurt was found guilty.

Footage showed the woman falling down twice, jurors were told, with prosecutors describing the alleged attack as "cynical, predatory and callous".

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