GLAMOUR model Chloe Ayling’s kidnapper has been given additional security after being attacked in prison.

Former delivery driver Lukasz Herba, 30, was jailed for 16 years and nine months after abducting Chloe - who celebrated by posting a naked picture of herself on social media.

He had demanded a £250,000 ransom and claimed to have snatched her to auction her off as a sex slave on the Dark Web.

Herba is serving his sentence in the sex offenders wing at Milan’s tough Opera jail which also houses Mafia monsters and serial killers.

A source said:”When he first arrived he kept quiet who he was.

"He can’t speak Italian so no one spoke to him.

“The problem was that during meal time in the evening when the TV is on a news report flashed up and he was instantly recognised.

“He went back to his cell and within a couple of minutes he was jumped on by a load of other prisoners and given a really bad beating.

“He was in the hospital wing for treatment and has now been given extra security.

“In jail there is a rule that you don’t mess with women or children and if you do you get punished by the other inmates.”

Chloe was drugged and put in a hold-all before being locked in the boot of a car last July when she turned up for a bogus photo shoot in Milan, Italy.

At his trial CCTV was shown of the two holding hands, shopping but prosecutors said she was under duress and feared for her life.

Mum of one Chloe, 21, of Coulsdon, Surrey, has slammed critics who have suggested the kidnap was a publicity stunt to further her career.

After the verdict she posted a naked picture of herself on Facebook suggestively sucking a straw and said: "Thank you to all who believed in me from the beginning.

“Shame on all of the ignorant people who doubted what had happened to me and think they know more than the Italian authorities.”

Polish born Herba from Sandwell, West Midlands, has said he plans to appeal and Italian prosecutors are extraditing his brother Michal, 36, from Britain for his part in the kidnap.

Lukasz lawyer Katia Kolakowska said: "We are taking this to an appeal.

"There are many holes in this story and we will expose them when the case returns to court.”