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Mike Bedigan, Jamie Roberts & Peter Diamond

Sir Mo Farah is ‘relieved’ Home Office won’t deport him after trafficking claim

Sir Mo Farah has confessed he is “relieved” at the Home Office decision to take no action after he made the shocking revelation that he was brought to the UK illegally as a when he was 9-years-old.

The four-time Olympic champion, now 39, admitted he has a lot of people to whom he “owed my life” after they gave him “strength” to talk about his past.

Farah revealed the sensational truth during a BBC documentary titled The Real Mo Farah. He shared how he was illegally brought to Britain from Somalia and assumed the name of another child.

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