Man accused of kidnapping Chloe Ayling claims they plotted it together

THE man accused of drugging, kidnapping and auctioning a British model online has made a bizarre claim in court.

THE man accused of kidnapping British model Chloe Ayling and holding her in Italy claimed they orchestrated the stunt together.

Lukasz Herba, 30, faced court in Italy for allegedly holding the 20-year-old glamour model for six days before delivering her to the British embassy.

But a Milan court has today dismissed his claims that the 20-year-old mum-of-one was in on the crime.

A judge at the Corte d’Assises in Milan also rejected an application by Polish-born Herba’s lawyer, Katia Kolakowska, to force Chloe to travel to Italy to be questioned in the court, the Daily Mail reports.

Chloe Ayling’s alleged kidnapper claims that they plotted the story together so she could become famous.

One of the pictures Chloe Ayling claims was posted of her online by the alleged ‘Black Death’ group.

The claims were the latest twist in a bizarre case that made international headlines earlier this year when Ayling said she was snatched, drugged with ketamine and held in an Italian farmhouse for six days. She claims she was auctioned for sex online by a group known as “Black Death” with a bids starting at $300,000 ($A455,000).

The mother of one claims she was released because she had a child, under strict conditions that the police did not investigate, and the group received $500,000 in ransom money.

However Italian police arrested Lukasz Pawel Herba in Milan on suspicion of kidnapping and extortion. His brother, Michal Konrad Herba, 36, was detained in the UK on a European arrest warrant in connection with the kidnapping.

He has since been fighting extradition to Italy and his lawyer, George Hepburne Scott, previously said there is a “real risk that the entire case is a sham,” the Mirror reports.

Lukasz Herba will face court in Italy over his alleged role in the case.

Chloe Ayling will release a tell-all book next year on her experience.

Ayling claimed the story was genuine and she was drugged and stuffed into the boot of a car while fearing for her life. However her behaviour since the ordeal, and reports she went shopping for shoes and groceries with her alleged kidnapper raised questions about what really happened.

Following the ordeal, Ayling said she would publish details of her story in a tell-all book due to be released in the UK spring 2018.

“I have spent days crying and crying over what happened, being in fear for my life, made to believe I would be sold as a sex slave,” she said at the time.

“I have been manipulated, drugged, targeted and now, character-assassinated as a liar and attention-seeker.”

“I am only human. I want to put this behind me, to move on with my life, to forge a new path for myself that is free from the horrors I have experienced.