Penniless and living on charity in a hostel in Istanbul… we track down the REAL Mo Farah

The man whose name was given to the four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah ekes out a meagre existence for himself in a poor suburb of the Turkish city of Istanbul.

While his namesake was knighted for his triumphs on the track in 2017 and enjoys a luxury lifestyle, Mohamed Farah was recently forced to move out of a shabby shared room when a migrant charity could no longer afford the £2.70-a-day rent.

The 39-year-old spends much of his day killing time in a park, where he puffs on cigarettes, or sitting by the road eating plates of food given by sympathetic Turkish friends.

The remarkable story of the two Mo Farahs emerged earlier this month in a BBC documentary, in which the athlete – born Hussein Abdi Kahin – told how he had been trafficked by a family friend from Africa into Britain for domestic servitude.