Trapped in a tangled web

The press and public questioned if the kidnap was a publicity stunt

- BY SARA WALLIS

IN the summer of 2017, 21-year-old glamour model Chloe Ayling was kidnapped in Italy by an international criminal gang known as Black Death.

Turning up for what she believed to be a photoshoot in Milan, Chloe was grabbed from behind, drugged and bundled into a bag before being taken to a remote farmhouse and handcuffed to a chest of drawers.

She was told she had six days before being auctioned on the dark web and sold as a sex slave.