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Susan Knox

Relative of woman accused of keeping Sir Mo Farah as 'child slave' denies he was trafficked

Following Sir Mo Farah's revelation about being smuggled into the UK, a male relative of the woman accused of keeping the athlete as a 'child slave' has denied that he was ever trafficked.

The Team GB athlete, 39, revealed in his new BBC documentary that he was born Hussein Abdi Kahin in Somaliland, and that he is an illegal immigrant, smuggled into the UK by traffickers when he was nine.

Mo assumed the name of another child, after his father was killed in the civil war in his homeplace.

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