Man who kidnapped British model Chloe Ayling ‘to sell her to a sex slave ring on the dark web’ gets 16 years in prison
Ayling’s lawyer said the plot was to sell the 20-year-old model for sex in an online auction unless a ransom was paid
A Polish man living in Britain was sentenced to more than 16 years in an Italian prison on Monday for kidnapping British model Chloe Ayling in Milan last July.
Ayling, 20, told Italian police she had been lured to a photo shoot in Italy’s fashion capital last summer, abducted and held captive for six days. Her lawyer said the plot was to sell her for sex in an online auction unless a ransom was paid.
Her lawyer, Francesco Pesce, called the conviction and sentencing of Lukasz Pawel Herba “quite an important verdict.” Pesce said Ayling was considering possible civil action in British courts against media outlets that suggested she had lied to become famous.
“There were many cases in which she was publicly shamed about this,” Pesce said.
Since returning to Britain, Ayling has given a number of interviews in which she said she was drugged, gagged, bound, stuffed into a bag, put into the boot of a car and driven to a village near Turin.
Ayling described the kidnapping in a statement to police last summer, which was published by the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.