I completely understand why Sir Mo waited so long to tell his story. The racist comments show exactly why he chose to do this. I believe him, and am sure the BBC will have checked the evidence.
What I find shocking is that he was a child slave in England in the 1990s. Sadly he will not have been the only child bought to the UK this way and then treated so badly.
I genuinely don’t know what the answer is to asylum seekers and refugees. It is clear there are truly evil people making vast profits from trafficking desperate people around the globe. It is clear we still have slavery in the UK, not just domestic, labourers etc., but also sex slaves.
Personally I would like to see countries who want to be seen as civilised to work together to develop a global approach. This would see refugees who reach camps in “safe” countries being documented and then distributed globally to those countries based on %. They would be given asylum with a pathway to adopting a new nationality. This would reduce the number of people being trafficked and the illegal profits. The down side is distinguishing between refugees and economic migrants. Realistically I can never see this happening as countries would argue about their % plus they would face a racist, or is it xenophobic, backlash from voters.