Model clean in kidnap: lawyer
THE LAWYER for a British model who was allegedly kidnapped and held for nearly week in Italy is pushing back against suggestions that his client was an accomplice in the ordeal.
Chloe Ayling, a 20-year-old mother of a toddler, said she was abducted when she arrived in Milan for what she thought was a photo shoot. She claimed she was drugged and put in a suitcase before she was taken to a remote cabin.
She described the six-day ordeal as a “terrifying” experience.
But news that she went shopping for groceries and shoes with her captor has raised suspicions, The Guardian reported.
Ayling’s lawyer, Francesco Pesce, said authorities initially had “legitimate doubts” about her story, all of which have been “surpassed.” In an interview with The Guardian, Pesce said suggestions that Ayling may have been involved in her own kidnapping by a human trafficking group called the Black Death were “evil,” adding she complied with her captors out of fear.