UK Police Open Investigation After Olympic Champion Mo Farah Revealed He Was a Trafficked Child

UK Police Open Investigation After Olympic Champion Mo Farah Revealed He Was a Trafficked Child
Undated photo of Sir Mo Farah. John Giles/PA Media
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The Metropolitan Police said they have opened an investigation into the alleged trafficking of Sir Mo Farah when he was a child.

The four-time Olympic Champion revealed in a BBC documentary aired on Wednesday that he was born in Somaliland as Hussein Abdi Kahin and was trafficked to Britain when he was nine years old to do domestic labour.