Drugged British model ‘was taken shoe shopping by her Black Death kidnapper the day before she was set free’
KIDNAPPED Brit model Chloe Ayling went shoe shopping with her abductor the day before she was released, Italian cops say.
The Page Three girl was allegedly drugged, stuffed in a suitcase and held captive at a remote farmhouse by suspected Black Death sex trafficker Lukasz Pawel Herba.
Police revealed that Chloe, 20, went shopping for shoes with Herba, 30, in Milan after he agreed to set her free because she is a mum, reported.
When questioned by police about the shopping trip, Chloe is said to have burst into tears.
“Is it not strange that you went to buy shoes with your abductor?” one detective asked her.
She claimed she went shopping after Herba had promised to set her free.
The 20-year-old mum has told police how, on her first night in the mountain hideout, Herba handcuffed her to a chest of drawers.
But for her remaining nights in captivity near the French border, he slept beside her in a double bed.
Chloe told officers 30-year-old Herba — who claimed to be part of a shadowy group of internet sex traffickers called Black Death — never sexually assaulted her.
And each morning he gave her gifts of underwear and chocolate.
Chloe, from Coulsdon, South London, gave her account in statements made to cops and seen by The Sun.
She said: “From the second night he took the cuffs from my feet, assuring me that sooner or later I’d be freed so I had no need to escape.
“From that moment I always slept in his room, sharing the bed. To be clear, he didn’t molest me sexually or ask for sexual favours.”
Mum-of-one Chloe said Herba claimed Black Death had a strict code not to touch kidnapped girls.
But she said she was so scared of being poisoned she drank only from sealed bottles and refused proper meals before developing a “trusting relationship” with her captor.
The glamour model had flown to Milan on July 10 after being paid around £600 to join the photoshoot.
Chloe said she tried in vain to escape and feared for her life when she saw a second empty suitcase in the car boot, believing it would be used to dispose of her dead body.
Instead she was held until July 17, when Polish-born Herba, living in Oldbury, West Mids, gave her new trainers and drove her to the British consulate — only to find it closed.
Bizarrely the two went for breakfast before returning to the consulate.
Herba stipulated she must not make a criminal complaint and must promote Black Death in interviews. If not, he said, they would find her and kill her.
Chloe said: “Even now I fear for my life.”
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The model was so scared she told consulate staff that Herba, who accompanied her into the building, was a man she had stopped in the street so she could use his phone.
Only later did she reveal he was her kidnapper.
Herba faced court in Milan last week and police are hunting at least one more suspect.
Chloe was yesterday at her family home.
A spokesman said she had suffered a “horrific ordeal”.
They added: “She is de-briefing Met Police and the Foreign Office.”
Last night, as the Met confirmed they had been looking into the incident, Snapchat pictures emerged of Herba grinning and holding a beer.
A former pal said: “I can’t believe it. You’d never have described him as sinister.
"He was obviously a Jekyll and Hyde character living a lie.”