Male model is jailed for rape

A male model was jailed for seven years yesterday for the triple rape of a Swedish au-pair.

Chris Ballo, 24, of Battersea, south-west London, met his 19-year-old victim through friends at a nightclub. The Old Bailey was told that he invited her to his flat and raped her three times after threatening her with a knife when she rejected his advances. He had denied the charges.