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What is the link between child trafficking and football?

A former Premier League footballer has told the Today programme he is deeply concerned about the growing number of children in Africa being trafficked to the UK to be sold for sex

A former Premier League footballer has told this programme he is deeply concerned about the growing number of children in Africa being trafficked to the UK to be sold for sex.

27 year old Al Bangura, who used to play for Watford FC, was brought to Britain as a child for male prostitution more than a decade ago.

The National Crime Agency says hundreds of children were trafficked to the UK last year - for sex or domestic servitude.

Sima Kotecha reports.

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