Sir Mo Farah has told his life story countless times: how he arrived in the UK as a boy with his mother and brothers, to live with a father who was already here.

Yet that account was false. The truth, according to the Olympic champion, is that he was born in Somaliland and trafficked to this country as a nine-year-old by a stranger who, he claims, forced him into domestic servitude.

Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/11/mo-farah-not-real-name-lied-life-says-olympic-champion/

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