Ross Kemp has talked about how his memories of the harrowing plight of glue-addicted children in Kenya have haunted him.

They are the subject of his upcoming documentary, Ross Kemp Meets The Glue Kids Of Kenya.

The film focuses on the impoverished town of Eldoret, where a community of teenage mothers, their children and orphans live on a rubbish dump, and are all addicted to solvents.

Kemp admitted the experience of making the programme has affected him profoundly.

He said: "Those rubbish dumps will stay in my mind for the rest of my life.

"When a woman drops her child on its head and picks it up and puts a glue bottle in its mouth, those are the things that stay with you, to see that loss, that desperation."

He added: "Viewers will definitely be disturbed seeing little kids sniffing glue which has been given to them by their teenage mothers who are addicted to solvents."

The 30-minute special saw Kemp link up with his Bafta-winning documentary team and Save the Children in early 2008, when some of the most vicious fighting in the post election violence in Kenya was taking place.

Ross Kemp Meets the Glue Kids is part of his ongoing study of gangs across the world and he has recently published his second book on the subject, Gangs II.

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