London’s Metropolitan Police said it had opened an investigation after multiple Olympic and world champion athlete Mo Farah told a documentary that he was a victim of child trafficking.
The 39-year-old said he was brought to Britain from Djibouti at the age of nine and was forced to do housework in exchange for food.
Farah told the BBC documentary his name had been changed from Hussein Abdi Kahin in the fake travel documents used to fly him to Britain by a woman he had never met before.
Once he arrived in the U.K., the woman took him to her home in Hounslow, west London, and tore apart a paper with the contact details of his relatives. Her family did not allow him to go to school until the age of 12.