Mo Farah isn’t who he says he is

[SnottyLottie]

news.sky.com/story/sir-mo-farah-reveals-the-truth-about-how-he-came-to-the-uk-12650126

My mind is actual blown after reading that. Poor man to have to go through such an ordeal. I wonder what ever happened to the real Mohammad Farah? ☹️

Hope this doesn’t effect his citizenship or anything.

Autobiographies are normally written by a ghost writer.

The nephew 'Mo Farah' looked about 25, not circa 40 which Sir Mo Farah is. He also said that he was not married and did not have any children. I am not sure Kensi is telling the truth that that is the swapped child.

I thought Sir Mo came across very well. So humble and a supportive school.

Extreme exercise ages you.

They are within a few years of each other, otherwise passport control wouldn't have allowed Mo through as a child.

I get what she means the adult who was chatted to via WhatsApp may or may not be the Mo who's identity was used.
They never said where he actually was or why he was swapped.

Kinsi may know more than she is saying. Although it maybe she is worried about exposing someone else.

I've just watched it 😳 I don't really know what to think some of it was quite vague but I guess that might have been to protect people, the who thing Is just astonishing .

I don't think the mo farrah oh WhatsApp looked 25 he did look in his 30s,

Lawyers were involved both on Sir Mos behalf and BBC behalf.

The Police are now investigating, Sir Mo being trafficked is probably only a small part of a jigsaw.
The Lawyers wouldn't want to risk blowing apart any police investigations.

They alluded to the fact that the real Mo Farah was in the same place and meant to come. However, the wife of his father sold his place for the boy we now know as Mo Farah

Was the woman who brought Sir Mo to the UK not the other Mos mother and wife of the father?

Certainly some bits of the story are clear as mud.
But the Sir Mo probably doesn't know the whole story either. And lawyers will have been keen not to make any accusations or interfere with any possible criminal charges.

Yes the woman was the real Muhammad s mum. So many bits and pieces to this!

Yeah, she was probably his mum but again, I didn't think it was clear

Then you spin that round,
the Real Mos mum, brought Sir Mo to the UK, to act as a domestic servant, presumably leaving her own son Real Mo in Somiland. Who was he with?

Well exactly. Who was the son left with?

I also thought he looked way too young to be the child and I suspect Sir Mo still doesn’t know the truth of it all.

Extended family perhaps.

Maybe, I don't think the whole story will ever be known.

Probably not, I do have trust the UK police will investigate it, and I'm guessing he won't be the only child who was trafficked by these people.

Was interesting the school commented they'd been a previous Mo Farah, do you think he could have been the Real Mo? Esp as Kensi mentioned she knew what the Real Mo looked like. I might be totally wrong but I wouldn't have thought posting photos would have been an option.

@Dinoteeth yes, the fact there had been another Mo Farah was probably no coincidence. Just how many of them were there over the years I wonder.

I certainly got the impression that is what they were hinting at.

What would have happened to the real Mo in that case ? Where did he go ? Isn't it so poignant Mo's little boy has his real name. Lovely family.

@Hoolahulahoop that's a big question. What happened to the Real Mo, did he go back to Somaliland?

We don’t know that the previous student called Mo Farah was the real Mo Farah.

For all we know there could have been loads of them up and down the country all being trafficked on the same documents.

Also - surely the foster mother must know more than she’s saying because the supposed trafficker was her brothers wife. And She knew the life he was leading yet let it to go on till SS turned up on her doorstep with him when she lied and said yes he’s my nephew. Couldn’t she have said then what the reality was.

Then there’s the part where the random lady turned up in the restaurant with the tape from his mum. People must have known where he was.

I can recall my husband and his friends getting cassette tapes from their families when they were studying in the UK. It was really upsetting seeing what it meant to them and it’s the cassette tape Sir Mo got that got me in the chest.

Also - surely the foster mother must know more than she’s saying because the supposed trafficker was her brothers wife. And She knew the life he was leading yet let it to go on till SS turned up on her doorstep with him when she lied and said yes he’s my nephew. Couldn’t she have said then what the reality was.

I was intrigued by this, at first they said a somali family known to the school fostered him....then it transpires that she was related to the traffickers. I was expecting them not to appear on camera tbh.
And she was pretty vague about how her nephew had been swapped...for (the now famous) Mo Farah...and what happened to the other boy

I’m pretty certain there’s way more to come out about this whole thing and I hope Sir Mo can cope with the real truth when it does eventually come out because people are still lying to him.

The foster mothers brother who was said to be the father of the real Mo Farah. Just what did he do or think when Sir Mo arrived at the airport that day instead of the real Mo Farah. And if the foster mother knew the real Mo Farah was her nephew then why did she behave as if tracking him down had been really difficult - it was her brothers son.

The other odd thing he travelled with a woman and her two kids. Is that the woman he stayed with because I though he said he was handed over to someone else who ripped up the bit of paper with his family contacts details on it.

I'm certain more will come out. He made a comment about being concerned someone in own family was involved in him being trafficked. That would explain how someone knew where he was and how to find him.

He must have made a conscious decision to cut ties with the Foster mother Kinsi too.