First pic of woman who trafficked Mo Farah into UK and treated him like slave

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A first photo of the woman who allegedly brought Mo Farah to the UK has been revealed.

The Great Britain Olympic legend made the stunning revelation last week that he had been hiding his true identity for decades after being trafficked from east Africa as a child. The 39-year-old told BBC documentary The Real Mo Farah his real name is Hussein Abdi Kahin.

Sir Mo said 54-year-old Nimco Farah brought him to West London as a nine-year-old along with her two children under a false name. The four-time Olympic gold medallist claimed he was forced to cook, clean and bathe the other children in a Hounslow council flat after the real Mohamed Farah was unable to make the trip to the UK with the others.

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Farah said: "I remember getting on a plane with this lady, she's got two kids, I'm excited because I've never been on a plane before. Got off the plane with the woman, we go through passport check.

"The lady's going 'don't forget Mohamed' because that was the name on the document. Stamped, go through. We get in the car, I had all the contact details for my relative and once we got to the house, the lady takes it off me.

"Right in front of me, ripped it up and put it in the bin and at that moment, I knew I was in trouble. When the man was around, I was treated very different, but he was never there, we wouldn't see him for weeks.

"From day one, the lady, what she did wasn't right. I wasn't treated as part of the family, I was that kid who did everything. If I wanted food in my mouth, my job was to look after those kids, shower them, cook for them, clean for them.

"She said 'if you ever want to see your family again, don't say anything, you say anything, they will take you away'. Often I would just lock myself in the bathroom to cry, nobody's there to help. After a while I just learnt to not have that emotion."

But Ahmed, the son of the accused Nimco, has now told The Sun his mother was 'coerced' into bringing young Mo to these shores and denied his mother treated him like a slave. He claimed his fake brother was treated like a real sibling and the children were all responsible for their own chores.

Ahmed said: "My mum didn't do anything wrong. She was a young woman with two young children and she said she was given a paper and told, 'bring this person'. She was coerced.

"She was told 'if you only take two children and there are three children on the visa, they are not going to let you into the country'. My mum said that she risked everything for him to come with us and treated him like her own son, just to be accused of these terrible things."

The real Mohamed Farah, Ahmed's brother, was left behind in east Africa, while Ahmed said he himself only found out the future Team GB star was not his sibling at the age of nine.

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