Mo Farah has sensationally revealed that he was trafficked into Britain and spent his early years here in domestic servitude.
The Olympic champion completely overturns the already extraordinary story of his life in a BBC documentary, The Real Mo Farah, which will be broadcast tomorrow night.
Far from him coming to the UK to live with his father, his father was in fact dead – a victim of the civil war in his native Somalia.
And, incredibly, Mo Farah is not even his real name.
The original back story was that he arrived in Britain as an eight-year-old and lived with an aunt and uncle because his father showed little interest in him.
Equipped with just three English phrases – ‘Excuse me’, ‘Where is the toilet?’ and ‘C’mon then’ – he was enrolled in a tough junior school in the predominantly white area of Feltham, west London, where his refusal to be cowed meant he was forever getting into fights.
His troubled upbringing was splashed across the papers after he achieved a…
