Asylum seekers Ibrahim Alshafe, 26, and Abdulla Ahmadi, 26, have been jailed at Hove Crown Court for 21 years each for raping a woman on Brighton beach on 4 October 2025.
Karin Al-Danasurt, 21, who filmed the attack, has been sentenced to 18 years and six months in prison.
The court on Wednesday was told that all three will serve a further six years on extended licence.
An earlier trial at the same court heard that the woman was targeted by the men after she became separated from her friends on a night out.
She was “staggering in the street” and “incapacitated”, the court heard.
Egyptian national Alshafe and Iranian national Ahmadi took her behind a beach hut and raped her.
Egyptian national Al-Danasurt went to the location moments later and filmed it.
Alshafe and Ahmadi were both found guilty of two counts of rape, while Al-Danasurt was found guilty of all four counts of rape as a secondary party.
Jurors returned their verdicts in the five-week trial after more than 12 hours of deliberation.
Footage shown during the trial showed Alshafe smiling during the attack.
Prosecutor Hanna Llewellyn-Waters KC told jurors the woman recalled being spat on, kicked, and her throat being grabbed during the attack, as well as men laughing.
At Wednesday’s sentencing hearing, the woman read a victim impact statement to the court, saying: “They destroyed my life that night, they took something from me nobody had the right to do so.
“They violated me in every way.”
Sentencing the men, Judge Christine Henson KC said: “Each of you participated in an entirely predatory and callous attack on a female separated from her friends after what had been a fun night out for her.
“You each treated her with contempt and you each played a role in degrading her in the most appalling way.”
Prosecutor Hanna Llewellyn-Waters KC described the men as “devoid of humanity” and their treatment of the woman was “entirely predatory, callous and contemptuous”.
She described the impact on the woman as “extreme”.
In her victim impact statement, the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, added: “They took something from me that night I’m afraid I will never get back.
“To not take accountability for their actions [is] like sticking a knife in and twisting it again.”
She told the court when she closes her eyes she sees the man filming it and them all “laughing at me”.
“My skin crawls. No matter how hard I scrub it, I still feel dirty,” she added.
The three defendants knew each other and were living at Home Office-approved hotel accommodation for asylum seekers in Lower Beeding, near Horsham, West Sussex.
Ahmadi and Alshafe met on a small boat from France arriving in the UK on 19 June 2025, while Alshafe and Al-Danasurt, who arrived in the UK on 11 October 2024, were roommates at the hotel.
Alshafe and Ahmadi claimed during the trial that the encounter was consensual, while Al-Danasurt claimed in court that he had tried to stop the attack by filming it.
The court saw footage of the woman falling down while walking with Ahmadi and Alshafe on the seafront.
Giving evidence in the trial, the woman told the court: “It wasn’t consensual, it was not consensual. They are evil and they have ruined my life.”
Cross-examined from behind a screen in court, she cried as she said: “It’s the filmer’s face I see every time I close my eyes, laughing at me.”
Ministers have vowed to deport the men after they were sentenced.
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