Lara Prendergast Lara Prendergast

The Chloe Ayling story masks slavery’s sad truth

We’d rather hear about the Dark Web and babe-munching tigers than the real facts about trafficking

issue 26 August 2017

Do you believe Chloe Ayling? She is the 20-year-old glamour model whose dramatic story has been all over the newspapers throughout August. She claims to have been lured to a fake photoshoot in Italy, injected with ketamine, stuffed inside a suitcase and shoved into the boot of a car.

So far, so just about credible.

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