The British model who was allegedly kidnapped in Milan has told police she promised to have sex with her captor once he let her go, it has been reported.
Chloe Ayling, 20, said chief suspect Lukasz Herba watched her shower and slept next to her in the same double bed at a remote Italian farmhouse where she was held for six days.
Ms Ayling said she promised to have sex with him in order to fend off his advances.
In a 3,500-word statement given to Italian Police and obtained by MailOnline, she said Herba ‘tried various sexual advances with me but I always stopped it by putting it off to the future’.
She added: ‘In effect, I was leading him to believe that we would have become more intimate friends when this kidnapping was over.’
The mother-of-one from Coulsdon, South London, told police: “On one occasion I remember that I was in the shower and he was watching me and he told me to stay in the shower and said that he couldn’t take it any more and carried out a sex act.”
She also explained to police why she didn’t raise the alarm when shoe shopping in Milan with Herba – who she was told to call ‘MD’.
‘I realise that but for me Herba or better yet, MD, was the one that could save me and thanks to him I could gain my freedom,’ she told detectives.
“This is the reason why I didn’t rebel and I did not ask help from the lady that was selling shoes.”
Meanwhile, Herba had denied knowingly taking part in any crime, saying his involvement stems from wanting to raise money to treat his leukaemia.
He said he was hired by a group of Romanians to rent properties around Europe to store garments they were selling, according to reports.
He is also said to have told investigators he posed as a photographer and met Ms Ayling. He said he was paid £500,000, found out the Romanians intended to kidnap her, and backed out of the plan.
His side of the story has emerged as Ms Ayling’s representatives dismissed doubts about the ordeal, saying it was real and terrifying.
Italian police said she was snatched last month by a group calling itself Black Death.
She is believed to have been drugged and transported in a bag to an isolated village near Turin, where she was held for six days as her captors tried to auction her online.
As more details emerged about the episode, including that she went shopping for shoes and groceries with her captor, her lawyer and an agent have spoken out to defend her.
Lawyer Francesco Pesce said it is ‘evil’ to suggest she was involved while Phil Green, of Supermodel Agency, said what took place was “real and very frightening for all concerned.”
Ms Ayling left her house in Coulsdon, South London, on Tuesday morning wearing black leggings and a gold-coloured jacket.
Pulling on a white helmet and black coat, she climbed on to the pillion seat of a motorbike before it set off in the direction of Purley.
Speaking previously, Ms Ayling said she had feared for her life “second by second, minute by minute, hour by hour” during the incident and thanked the Italian and UK authorities “for all they have done to secure my safe release.”
A friend of Ms Ayling’s said the young model said she was doing a Page Three photo shoot on Tuesday.
Carla Bellucci, who runs a modelling agency, told the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme: “I wouldn’t say she’s the wisest of girls.
“She can be a little bit naive, she’s young. To us it’s new but for her she’s had a few weeks to get used to it.”
Ms Bellucci said the decision to pose so soon after the incident was “maybe… her way of dealing with what’s happened to her, to get back out there.”
.Yahoo