Sudanese national Mubarak Ibrehim, 25, living in taxpayer funded hotel raped ‘terrified’ woman at back of court building which he recorded on his phone, court hears

January 27, 2026 NF General Asylum Seeker, Nonce News, On Trial 0

26 January 2026

A Sudanese national living in a hotel raped a ‘terrified’ woman at the back of a court building and recorded it on his phone, a court has heard.

Mubarak Ibrehim, a migrant living at the Royal Beach Hotel in Southsea, Hampshire, is on trial at Portsmouth Crown Court accused of the alleged rape in the early hours of June 11, 2025.

The incident took place in the vehicle entry bay of the court building where the trial is taking place, the jury was told.

The defendant, 25, is also accused of voyeurism by filming the rape on his mobile phone during which a male voice can be heard saying ‘don’t worry’, the court heard.

Ed Hand, prosecuting, told the jury the complainant had left the Astoria nightclub in the city centre with a friend at about 3am.

The friend then began talking to another man and went into an alleyway to buy some drugs from him while the alleged victim sat on a kerb waiting for her because she ‘did not want to be involved’, Mr Hand said.

He added that Ibrehim, initially accompanied by another male, stopped to talk to the complainant before the other man left them alone.

The prosecutor said the pair were captured on CCTV footage and added: ‘He sat down next to her, he can be seen to kiss her and put his arm around her and after a short while they walk off camera and disappear out of shot for about five minutes in the vehicle bay of this building.

‘The pair then reappear and walk off together before the defendant walks off in the opposite direction.’

The complainant was ‘extremely upset’ and the police were alerted and attended the scene, Mr Hand added.

He said that in a police interview, the alleged victim said that when the pair were in the vehicle bay, Ibrehim ‘became more forceful, pulled down her trousers and raped her’.

Mr Hand added: ‘She told police she was terrified and she froze.’

The complainant was unaware Ibrehim had filmed the incident on his phone and when she was informed about it, she told police that ‘it made her feel physically sick’, the prosecutor said.

Mr Hand added the defendant sent a WhatsApp message to the alleged victim the following day saying: ‘I really enjoyed meeting you at the party last night, do you remember me?’

He said the complainant sent him a message saying: ‘You, you’re the one who hurt me, do you understand how drunk I was, taking advantage of me the way you did.’

After she sent another message saying, ‘I know it’s you, you were him’, he stopped replying.

Mr Hand said that after Ibrehim, who is being assisted during the trial by an Egyptian Arabic interpreter, was arrested he told police the alleged victim had consented to the sex.

He added: ‘He admitted using his phone to film some of the incident because he wanted to show she had consented.’

Mr Hand said the defendant had stopped the incident because he was ‘afraid of being seen’.

The jury was told they will be taken to the scene of the incident in a site visit.

Judge Daniel Sawyer said: ‘Ordinarily I would tell you not to go to the location but in this case it’s just out the back of the building and it would be utterly pointless, you can see most of it from your jury retiring room.’

Ibrehim denies the offences.