Brothers Heartbreak Over Mo Farahs Trafficking Claims

Sir Mo Farah's 'adoptive' brother has told of his heartbreak watching his sibling tell of his child 'trafficking' drama when he was shipped over to the UK.

Ahmed Farah's mother Nimco Ateye brought Sir Mo to England in 1993 when he was 10 years old, using the name Mohammed Farah which was stolen from another child. 

Ahmed has now said how upsetting he found Sir Mo's retelling of the story, where his campmates including were reduced to tears.

Sir Mo recalled how his father died in Somalia's civil war and his mother was unable to cope with eight children following his passing.

The Olympic runner revealed he thought he was going to live with a family in Holland but was instead sent to the UK with a fake name.

He told his campmates this week: 'I was child-trafficked to the UK. The lady, honestly . . . it was to do chores and look after her kids.'

Ahmed has now told the Sun that while he was too young to understand the situation at the time, he believes his mother acted with good intention to help Mo. 

He said of Mo: 'I was never told he was our servant or anything. I'm sure he had chores to do around the house, but we all did.'

Revealing it was hard to watch Mo talk about their childhood, he said: 'I was dumbfounded. I can see why the other celebrities were in tears because what he described was horrendous.

'I've always seen Mo as my big brother and to hear him talk about it was really upsetting. My mum is the one that brought him to the UK, but I can assure you that she acted with the best of intentions.'

He insisted that his mother just wanted to 'help' Mo and give him a better life.

Ahmed travelled to London from Africa aged just three years old with Mo, who he believed at the time was the son of his father.

They arrived to live with Nimco and Ahmed's older brother Wahib. The family had won reunification visas in the Nineties after Muktar was granted asylum in the UK.

When the real Mo Farah was unable to make the flight for unknown reveals, his documents were passed to Mo, who was known as Hussein at the time.

Ahmed said he 'looked up' to Mo and still considered him a brother when he found out they were not related by blood when he was around 11 years old 

The Somalia-born Olympian previously revealed how he was forced to work as a domestic servant. His father was killed in civil violence when he was just four.

He was born Hussein Abdi Kahin, but he was smuggled into the UK as an illegal immigrant under a false passport bearing his new identity '' – a name that had been stolen from another child.

During Thursday's instalment of , Mo discussed his traumatic childhood with his campmates, who were unaware.

Pussycat Doll initiated the conversation, asking Sir Mo why he came to the UK. 

The four-time Olympic gold medalist replied: 'It's a long story, but yeah I was living in Somalia when I was young and then the civil war kicked in and I lost my dad.

'So when that happened, my mum just... she couldn't deal with us, there was like eight of us. 

'I had a relative of mine living in Holland, at that moment I was just like "yeah I'm going to go see my relative" but it wasn't the case.

'My relative wrote details like "go with this lady" and then on the other side you get to meet your family. No, it was a whole different thing.'

He continued: 'Basically I was child trafficked to the UK.

'Lady comes in and she is like that "this is your name" and I was like "what".'

Sir Mo's campmates were dumbfounded at his story, particularly Scarlett Moffatt as he said how the lady made him do chores and look after her children. 

Breaking down in tears, she said: 'Oh my god, that's awful Mo. That's horrific.'

She added: 'God you're amazing'. 

Sir Mo is married to wife Tania and the couple have three children; daughters Rhianna, twins Aisha and Amani, and son Hussein.

Last November, the Mail on Sunday revealed that Sir Mo wrote a letter supporting the 'real' Mohamed Farah's attempt to at last be reunited with his family after the mix-up left him abandoned in Africa over 30 years ago.  

Sir Mo shared his story in BBC documentary, The Real Mo Farah, when he recounted how he was smuggled — 'trafficked' is the word he actually uses — into Britain on visa documents bearing his own photograph but Mohamed's name.

After arriving, he said, he spent years in domestic servitude being treated as little more than a skivvy by the woman who brought him here.

Sir Mo, who, for entirely understandable reasons, had built a totally false narrative to hide his background.

Since sharing his story, he has been widely praised for bravely admitting the painful truth about his journey to the UK and his miserable childhood.

It was reported in 2019 that Ahmed was deported to Somalia and was living a life of poverty on the streets after serving four-years in jail for false imprisonment.

Ahmed was sent to his birthplace by British authorities after he was freed from jail for a knife raid in Southall, west in 2010.

He served four-and-a-half years and was on the Home Office's radar for two years before being deported.

Speaking to the Sunday Mirror he said: 'I made a huge mistake, but why should I be double punished for something I've done?

'It's like they're saying 'Do the prison time but also do extra detention and be deported'.' 

Ahmed said at the time he had not spoken to Mo for 10 years and doesn't hold a grudge but wondered whether his brother's celebrity status counted against him.

He added that he was proud of Mo and everything he has achieved and that he had nothing to do with his deportation.

Speaking about the crime he committed he said if he had known what the outcome would have been he would have acted differently on the night of the incident. 

In 2011 Ahmed was jailed for false imprisonment over his involvement in a knife raid the previous year. 

He was released on licence in 2014 but was not a British citizen and had his documents confiscated. 

Ahmed claimed the authorities took all his papers – his NI number and everything that would have let him work.

Then in August 2016 officials detained him and triggered the deportation process, sending him back to where him and Mo were born - which is the fourth poorest country in the world. 

Ahmed sayid he struggled to adapt when he had to live in Africa, after spending most of his life in London.