Sir Mo Farah says he is "relieved" the Home Office has no plans to take action against him after he revealed that he was illegally smuggled into the UK as a child.
On Monday, July 11, the 39-year-old four-time Olympic champion told the world that he had been brought to Britain from Somalia illegally, assuming the name of another child, after his father was killed in the civil war. According to the BBC, Farah was born as Hussein Abdi Kahin, but was given the name Mohamed Farah by the people who brought him into the UK.
Farah said there were a number of people he "owed my life to" who had given him the strength to talk about his past. His school PE teacher, Alan Watkinson, later helped him obtain UK citizenship when the then-teenage Farah revealed he had been smuggled into the country.
