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Chloe Ayling Kidnapper Lukasz Herba Found Guilty

Chloe Ayling Kidnapper Lukasz Herba Found Guilty

An Italian court sentenced Herba - who has insisted he is innocent - to 16 years and nine months in prison

Jess Hardiman

Jess Hardiman

Lukasz Herba has been found guilty of kidnapping British model Chloe Ayling.

An Italian court sentenced Herba - who has insisted he is innocent - to 16 years and nine months in prison. According to the Sun, Herba was also ordered to pay £60,000 damages to Chloe for what happened.

Model Ayling made headlines around the world after she claimed that she was kidnapped and held captive by a sex-trafficking gang called the Black Death last July.

Ayling says she was asked to take part in a photoshoot in Milan, but when she arrived was drugged, stuffed into a suitcase and held for six days at a remote farmhouse in Turin. She told cops she feared for her life during the ordeal.

Polish national Lukasz Herba, 30, was arrested and charged with her kidnapping

While on trial in February in Italy, the court was shown CCTV footage of Ayling walking hand-in-hand with Herba the day before she was released.

Herba has claimed that the kidnap plot was faked as a publicity stunt, but Ayling has always said that she was never part of any scam.

Featured Image Credit: PA

Topics: uk news, News