SENTENCE IS CUT FOR ‘LOVING’ CHLOE KIDNAPPER

ONE of British model Chloe Ayling’s kidnappers has had his 16-year jail sentence reduced by nearly five years – because he acted “lovingly”.

Lukasz Herba, 30, and his brother Michal snatched Chloe in Milan, squeezed her inside a holdall and drove her to an isolated farmhouse in July 2017.

Both were jailed the following year for kidnapping the beauty, who went on to star in Celebrity Big Brother.

But an Appeal Court has ruled Lukasz should serve 12 years and one month instead of the 16 years and nine months he was originally given.

The judgement says Lukasz “acted out of love” because he didn’t “abandon her in an isolated area” when he released

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Chloe, 22, from Coulsdon, south west London, was snatched by the brothers when she turned up for a bogus photoshoot and injected with horse tranquiliser ketamine.

She broke down in tears in court last summer as she described being grabbed and drugged by a man wearing a balaclava who said he was part of a gang called Black Death.

He threatened to auction her as a sex slave on the Internet unless a £230,000 ransom was paid.

The brothers tried to claim the kidnapping was a publicity stunt that the mum-of-one was part of to boost her career.

She told the court: “I tried to get away. There was a hand over my mouth and I could not breathe. I was trying to get the hand off my face, but I could not fight much longer.

“Straight away I felt drowsy and fell to the floor unconscious. When I started to wake up I was in a restricted space, I was in a black duffel bag.

“I had tape all around my mouth and I had handcuffs on my wrists and handcuffs on my ankles.”

Chloe published a diary of her time in captivity which revealed a softer side to Lukasz saying he taught her to play Battleships to pass the time.

Michal, 38, was jailed for 16 years in December 2018 for his part in the kidnap after being extradited from Oldbury, West Mids, where he had been living with his brother.

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