Cyril de la Morinerie
Mo Farah, a four-time Olympic athletics champion, has revealed in a documentary that he arrived in Britain illegally under a false identity before being forced to work as a household servant. The Interior Ministry said the athlete would not be prosecuted.
It’s a stunning revelation from one of the biggest stars in world athletics. In an interview broadcast on the BBC, the Briton, four-time Olympic champion, Mo Farah, reveals that he arrived in Great Britain under a false identity and that the athletics that saved his life. “Most people know me as Mo Farah, but that’s not my name or it’s not real,” he said.
The athlete was actually born in Somaliland
The 39-year-old star athlete is actually called Hussein Abdi Kahin. At the microphone of BBC, the track’s caption reveals she was born in Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia. “Despite what I have said in the past, my parents never lived in the UK. When I was four my father was killed in a civil war and I was illegally brought back to the UK United under the name of another child who was called Mohammed,” he explains.
When he arrived in Britain at the age of nine, the young Hussein was taken in by a heartless family. He has to do housework and take care of other children, otherwise he has nothing to eat. He confides in his physical education teacher who will take him under his wing.
No prosecution against Mo Farah
At the age of 17. My Farah becomes a subject of His Majesty, then a legend in the country. After his double at the London Olympics, the British government indicated that the athlete would not be prosecuted. The four-time Olympic champion first returned to Somalia some 20 years ago where he set up a foundation to build wells and provide medical and food aid in Africa.