Irish Examiner view: Mo Farah changes perception of trafficking and slavery

Olympian spent a lifetime hiding the fact that he was trafficked into Britain

Mo Farah reveals in a BBC documentary, The Real Mo Farah, that he was brought into Britain illegally under the name of another child.

Olympian Mo Farah said he was relieved that the British Home Office will not take action against him after he revealed he was trafficked into Britain.

If there was shock when one of Britain’s most-garlanded track athletes revealed that his real name was Hussein Abdi Kahin, there would have been outrage if he were stripped of his British citizenship for spending a lifetime hiding that fact.