Chloe Ayling has said she hopes a new series based on her kidnapping - which was filmed in Bolton -encourages people “not to doubt victims based on the way they react to a traumatic experience”. The British glamour model was abducted in 2017 after arriving at an address in Milan, Italy, for a modelling job, but was later released. A forthcoming six-part series, Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story, follows her abduction and time in captivity, as well as the subsequent court case that put her kidnappers in jail.
Key scenes w ere filmed in Bolton, including on the Oldhams Estate, Astley Bridge, including when Ms Ayling read a statement outside her house describing the ordeal. Speaking ahead of the show’s release today, she said: “I hope it encourages people not to doubt victims based on the way they react to a traumatic experience, based on the way they dress, their job or what they did to survive. “I hope it encourages people to look deeper than headlines, not to judge a situation or story based on what you read, not to be so easily influenced by media and to keep an open mind before jumping to conclusions.
” Ayling was held in a farmhouse near Turin while a 300,000 euro (£265,000) ransom was demanded, before being released six days later at the British Consulate in Milan. Polish national Lukasz Herba and his brother, Michal Herba, were subsequently jailed after an Italian court convicted them of kidnapping Ayling. READ MORE: Crews in town to film Kidnapped: The Chloe.