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

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Cook, clean, pick them up, change diapers – everything you can think of, I was doing it.” open image in gallery Farah with his mother Aisha during the filming in Somaliland of the BBC documentary He was later helped to obtain UK citizenship by his school PE teacher Alan Watkinson, while still using the name Mohamed Farah, and moved to live with his friend’s mother Kinsi Farah for seven years. open image in gallery The four-time Olympic champion revealed he was given a false name and taken to Hounslow in west London to work as a family’s domestic servant During the documentary, Farah said he thought he was travelling to Europe to live with relatives and recalled going through a UK passport check under the guise of Mohamed at the age of nine. open image in gallery The athlete said he was born in Somaliland as Hussein Abdi Kahin and his parents never lived in the UK He said: “If I wanted food in my mouth my job was to look after those kids, shower them, cook for them, clean for them, and she said, ‘If you ever want to see your family again, don’t say anything. If you say anything, they will take you away.’ “So she told you, don’t talk about anything otherwise I was in big trouble and I guess for me the only things that I could do, in my control, was to run away from this, was get out and run.” The Metropolitan Police has said it is “assessing” Farah’s allegations that he was trafficked into the UK as a child and forced to work as a domestic servant but that no reports have been made to the force.