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Model Kidnapping - Milan

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40858323

Something doesn't quite sound right with this story.
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  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,070
    I'm not sure if it's the cynical world we leave it but when I listened to her statement etc. - I felt exactly the same. Sounds dodgy.

    Obviously at face value it's absolutely horrific that it can be considered let alone carried out.
  • AllHailTheHen
    AllHailTheHen Posts: 3,063
    I was very surprised watching her posing for pictures outside her house like she was auditioning for FHM. Given the ordeal she has gone through it just seemed extremely odd.

    Like you say horrific for someone to go through but she seems to be taking it in her stride.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,978
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  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,640
    The cynic says..
    15 minutes of fame,
    Big Brother house beckons,
    photoshoot for the Sun, Star,
    forgotton by December.
  • Hadn't heard anything about this until this morning when two blokes on the train were commenting that if they were gonna kidnap a model, they'd have picked a decent looking one.

    Having said that, she looks pretty decent to me.
  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 7,989
    Don't wish to make light of this, but why has the suspect, Lukasz Herba, got Duct Tape stuck to the back of his head in one of his mugshots? Does this mark you out as being a member of Roland Duchatelet's criminal syndicate, in the same way that members of the Crips used to wear a blue bandana?
  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,193
    WSS said:

    I'm not sure if it's the cynical world we leave it but when I listened to her statement etc. - I felt exactly the same. Sounds dodgy.

    Obviously at face value it's absolutely horrific that it can be considered let alone carried out.

    I read about this in the paper yesterday. The story was accompanied by a picture of the young lady in fairly skimpy clothing with a big grin. The caption said "this was the young lady the day after getting home" and I was taken aback with how well she had readjusted to life after an incredible ordeal as depicted in the news.
  • charltonbob
    charltonbob Posts: 8,254

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40858323

    Something doesn't quite sound right with this story.

    I thought that yesterday & i haven't even read her statement. I don't know why but as you say it just doesn't sound right. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if somewhere down the line it comes out that it was all about her getting publicity for her modelling career.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,560
    odd that while captive she went out shopping with her kidnapper
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600

    Hadn't heard anything about this until this morning when two blokes on the train were commenting that if they were gonna kidnap a model, they'd have picked a decent looking one.

    Having said that, she looks pretty decent to me.

    I would - sorry to lower the tone. (It's spending too much time around Mehmet)
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  • RedArmySE7
    RedArmySE7 Posts: 5,407
    It certainly seems that very few people believe the story, including much of the media as they seem to be treading very cautiously with their reporting of it.
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,740

    ugly, fame hungry slag

    What's Katie Price gotta do with it?!?
  • I'd be amazed if this wasn't a sad, bad publicity stunt.

  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,617

    ugly, fame hungry slag

    I take it, she turned you down.
  • Some seriously ugly victim blaming going on in this thread.

    I think I'll wait until more details are known, or you know, there's maybe a trial, before making a value judgement on the young lady. Who as things stand is the victim of a crime.
  • RedArmySE7
    RedArmySE7 Posts: 5,407

    Some seriously ugly victim blaming going on in this thread.

    I think I'll wait until more details are known, or you know, there's maybe a trial, before making a value judgement on the young lady. Who as things stand is the victim of a crime.

    I would usually tend to agree, but I've just been really struck by the tone of some of the media reporting. I'm 100% fence sitting on this one, something certainly doesn't seem quite right. But again she really could have been through a horrific ordeal.

  • Huskaris
    Huskaris Posts: 9,848
    Seems like a 2017 version of Shannon Matthews to me.

    Attempted to get a ransom, no one bought so she was released.

    The only thing I can't explain is how this guy was caught.

    Either way, if I was to take part in a criminal enterprise I wouldn't trust a daft tart like that. Posing in front of the cameras like that is beyond stupid.
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,626
    I saw this on the news yesterday & heard her read what I assumed was a " prepared statement" - very monotone & no emotion in it at all - saw more tears & anguish from the British women athletes last night.

    Didn't think she looked all that & was wearing a low cut top & short shorts ...... but maybe that is what all 20 year olds wear these days.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,978
    Huskaris said:

    Seems like a 2017 version of Shannon Matthews to me.

    Attempted to get a ransom, no one bought so she was released.

    The only thing I can't explain is how this guy was caught.

    Either way, if I was to take part in a criminal enterprise I wouldn't trust a daft tart like that. Posing in front of the cameras like that is beyond stupid.

    Apparently he took pity on her when finding out she had a 2 year old son.

    Complete bollocks.
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  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,193
    edited August 2017

    Some seriously ugly victim blaming going on in this thread.

    I think I'll wait until more details are known, or you know, there's maybe a trial, before making a value judgement on the young lady. Who as things stand is the victim of a crime.

    I think you're right. I was hesitant about commenting because we don't know anywhere near enough about it, but I did because there are so many odd elements to it that it's really piqued my interest, admittedly somewhat ashamedly.

    That said, the idea that a bunch of strangers on an internet forum should feel it worth sharing their opinion of how pretty or ugly they find her, is as irrelevant as it is pathetic.

    Edit:

    And this is the nadir of internet discussion:

    ugly, fame hungry slag

  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,560

    ugly, fame hungry slag

    I take it, she turned you down.
    can't blame her can you, disgusting comments
  • SantaClaus
    SantaClaus Posts: 7,651
    You don't get much for $300,000 these days.
  • JiMMy 85 said:

    Some seriously ugly victim blaming going on in this thread.

    I think I'll wait until more details are known, or you know, there's maybe a trial, before making a value judgement on the young lady. Who as things stand is the victim of a crime.

    I think you're right. I was hesitant about commenting because we don't know anywhere near enough about it, but I did because there are so many odd elements to it that it's really piqued my interest, admittedly somewhat ashamedly.

    That said, the idea that a bunch of strangers on an internet forum should feel it worth sharing their opinion of how pretty or ugly they find her, is as irrelevant as it is pathetic.

    Edit:

    And this is the nadir of internet discussion:

    ugly, fame hungry slag

    The thing is people react differently to crimes against them. Some get angry, some get anxious and withdrawn, others shrug it off and crack on with things. There's no right or wrong response, it just is what it is. Yet because she's not acting in a way some on here would expect her to they are expressing doubt about her story and using the opportunity to have a pop at her motives, morality or even the way she looks.

    She's a model, therefore she's comfortable in front of the cameras. Maybe she is making the most of a dreadful situation and looking for £££'s off The Sun or maybe what she's wearing in the interviews is actually pretty modest for her? I dunno and neither does anyone else on here.

    Expecting her to dress like Laura Ingalls and fall apart in reading out a prepared statement is projecting a stereotype that she was never going to meet.

    Or she may have made the whole thing up...
  • Comes from Croydon. The place is full of fantasists.
  • charltonbob
    charltonbob Posts: 8,254
    Even her friend is sitting on the fence
  • stackitsteve
    stackitsteve Posts: 12,102
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  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,034
    All very strange
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,331
    I'm not going to comment on this crime until a few more facts come to light. But I will say it's not the least-plausible story published in British media this week.

    This is...

  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,034
    Chizz said:

    I'm not going to comment on this crime until a few more facts come to light. But I will say it's not the least-plausible story published in British media this week.

    This is...

    I've been to Magaluf - that story is entirely possible.