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Jon Weeks and Rachelle Abbott

The Leader podcast: Mo Farah’s story and the reality of trafficking

Sir Mo Farah holding up a picture of himself as a child during the filming of the BBC documentary

(Picture: PA)

Thirty years after being illegally trafficked into the UK under the wrong name, Sir Mo Farah has finally revealed the story of how he came to the country.

In a BBC documentary the four-time Olympic gold winner revealed that he was trafficked from his home in east Africa to the UK at just nine years old and forced to work as a domestic servant.

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