Milan kidnap case: Chloe Ayling 'held to pay for cancer treatment'

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Ayling's captors allegedly tried to sell her and police have been holding their prime suspect - Polish man Lukasz Herba, who moved to the United Kingdom several years ago.

Lukasz Pawel Herba, 30, a citizen of Poland who resides in Great Britain, was arrested in connection with the alleged abduction on charges of kidnapping for extortion purposes, according to police.

The 20-year-old woman was allegedly kidnapped after getting to Milan on July 10 for a photo shoot booked by her agent that was to take place the next day, according to police in Italy.

"Chloe seems to be strong, she's doing well considering what's happened to her", she said.

The ransom email allegedly sent by the man who kidnapped glamour model Chloe Ayling has been released.

Ayling's lawyer, Francesco Pesce, says she went along with her captor's wishes to avoid conflict, claiming she was under constant supervision by members of a criminal gang.

"She made a decision to go along with it to avoid any kind of conflict, followed him blindly and went into a shoe shop".

"So she abided to his request, "let's go and buy groceries" and "you need shoes, let's go buy shoes" and she didn't try to flee. I can well understand that she believed them", he said.

Now model and agent Carla Belluci, who BBC journalist Victoria Derbyshire described as a close friend, says that Ms Ayling is already preparing to get back into shooting.

"Then she was stuffed in a black sports bag, like she was an object, and then transported over winding, unpaved roads for more than two hours. bound hand and foot and with tape across her mouth", Pesce said. I think stuff is coming back to her.

"I wouldn't say she's the wisest of girls, she can be a bit naive, she's young". 'I spent five days thinking she was dead.

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Ayling told reporters on Sunday that she was still gathering her thoughts on the whole ordeal.

"There were legitimate doubts at the start, which were surpassed", Pesce told the Guardian.

She expressed some confusion at why the glamour model was released so easily.

Questions have arisen over why Ms Ayling reportedly went shoe shopping with her captor, and police have claimed that he is a "fantasist".

She said they slept in the same bed, but that he did not assault her, the Telegraph reported.

"For me as an agent, I would never send her out to do a Page 3 shoot after being released from an ordeal like this".

"For me, I wouldn't - I think that would be the last thing on my mind".

But people in the Italian village where Chloe Ayling said she was held captive told local media that she and the man went out together.

She was released on July 17 after her captors discovered she had a two-year-old child, she told police. "I am incredibly grateful to the Italian and British authorities for all that they have done to secure my safe release".

"I have just arrived home after four weeks and haven't had time to collect my thoughts. I'm not at liberty to say anything further until I have been debriefed by the United Kingdom police".

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