Mo Farah revealed he was saved by a PE teacher after being illegally trafficked to the UK. The four-time Olympic champion has opened up on a shocking truth about his identity and how he arrived in the UK.
The Somali-born star disclosed he was born Hussein Abdi Kahin in Somaliland, and that he is an illegal immigrant, smuggled into the UK by traffickers in 1993 when he was just nine. After their father was tragically killed during the Somali civil war in the late 1980s, Mo and his twin brother Hassan were sent to live with an uncle in nearby Djibouti.
Mo was then brought to the UK instead of the man whose real name is Mohamed Farah, who still lives in Somalia and has never touched British shores. The 39-year-old’s story will be told in a BBC documentary set to air tomorrow, which includes when he was eventually allowed to attend Feltham Community College in South West London at the age of 11, having been prevented from attending school for two years.
