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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Chiara Giordano

Mo Farah: All I ever wanted as a kid was to be with my parents

Ahmed Fais/BBC/PA

Sir Mo Farah has said all he wanted as a child was to be with his parents after revealing he was trafficked to the UK at the age of nine.

The four-time Olympic champion, 39, has told of how a woman brought him to Britain from Somalia illegally after his father was killed in the civil war and he was separated from his mother.

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