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Sir Mo Farah has spent 30 years hiding the fact that he was trafficked to this country aged nine, cut off from those he loved, and held in someone else’s house.

- Nocola Methven

He was threatened, kept away from school for several years, and made to work as a servant.

When asked about his past since becoming one of Britain’s greatest ever Olympians, he told the story that he came to the UK with his mum to join his dad, who was already here.

This is what he wrote in his autobiography, and stuck to when talking on TV with Jonathan Ross. It wasn’t true.