Mo Farah is not my real name and my life story was fake, says Olympic champion

Unless you get round it by making a substantial amount of money before you own up. :thinking:

It doesnā€™t matter. He is here illegally.

That is exactly what I have been trying to say, Boot. :+1:
But these men have such fixed ideas, Iā€™d hate to be in front of a jury with them sitting! :slightly_smiling_face:

Then punish the people who dragged him here, when he had no say in it.

Should we treat every illegal the same then if they came here as a young child brought by someone else else on false documents. Should they all be allowed to stay? where do we draw the line?

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Certainly, that is a given, but it doesnā€™t detract from him being here illegally (and knowing it) and so should be ā€œreturned to senderā€ forthwith.

If a young child has been brought here illegally but has grown up here and integrated into our society; when the Social Services and Education Services were made aware of the situation when he was a child and dealt with it by placing him with a foster family and getting him British citizenship, I think it would be cruel to withdraw that citizenship when he was nearly 40 and force him to go back the country of his birth, when his life, work and family are in UK where he has grown up.

Iā€™d think the same if it was any other child who was trafficked to UK in the same circumstances as Mo thirty years ago and grew up here.

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If this story had come out by any other means, I would say just let it go. But Farah has made it public himself when he didnā€™t have to. Heā€™s done well for himself since he came here, but his career is over, and this looks very much like a scheme to get himself back in the spotlight. Heā€™s a public hero with a knighthood, so the chances of him getting deported were minimal. Iā€™m sure he arrived at that conclusion himself before he was overcome with the urge to be ā€œhonestā€ about his past. I reckon he just wants a second bite of the cherry, and heā€™s not going to get a pat on the back for that from me. :018:

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All the lies and deception surrounding him.
So is he a tory candidate for party leader and prime minister.

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Harbal, you may well be right for all I know, but all I keep saying is WAIT until we know the facts before you condemn someone.
Is that really so unreasonable?

He must have known the hatred and repercussions his confession would cause, so in a way, it takes balls to come clean after deceiving people for so long.

I agree with that ā€¦ but it leaves a taint in the mouth that someone who knows heā€™s here illegally ( and for quite some time by the sounds of it) not only admits it, and why now?.. but seems to be trying to garner sympathy for a cruel life of servitude as a kid.

How much did he get off the BBC for the documentary?

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Iā€™m not condemning him. Iā€™m just saying that any negative consequences that come out of this, he will have brought on himself. Not that I expect there will be any negative consequences.

It would have taken more to have done it while his career was on the up. :102:

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God, this place!! :rofl::rofl::rofl:

I have no idea if he will have been paid by the BBC or not.
I havenā€™t watched the documentary yet, either, so I havenā€™t formed any opinion of whether heā€™s made it public now to garner sympathy for himself or if he is hoping to highlight the plight of other trafficked children that is still going on.
His motives for going public could be one of many possibilities - or a mixture of reasons - peace of mind for himself, a bit of publicity to maybe set the scene for new autobiography are other possibilities.

I wasnā€™t commenting on his personal motives for telling people now or trying to defend them - I was commenting on the Home Office decision not to take action against him.
I expect Mo took legal advice to check that out before going public (In his situation I would have checked whether there was a risk of being deported before I spoke up!)

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Iā€™ll watch it when I get a chance, but I canā€™t get the story straight yet

So when his father was killed, his mother sent him away to be with his twin brother with his aunt and uncle in Djibouti for safety

But then his family smuggled/trafficked him into the U.K. (they are denying this)

He was sent to live with a family in the U.K. who used him as a servant and told him his name was Mo Farah

Then social services got involved and he went to live with a kinder lady who posed as his Auntie. She had a nephew whoā€™s name is Mo Farah

So the lady and the abusive family he was originally with, and the people smugglers, must all know each other and be connected?

The abusive family didnā€™t just pull the name Mo Farah out of the air, they must of known of the this lady and her nephew and stolen his identity? How did social services let this lady, not a relative, take him in?

In some places they are saying that the lady who took him in was the sister of the husband of the couple that originally trafficked him and used him as a servant?

And he was eight years old, he must have remembered his mother and brother and he knew where his brother and family were living, why did it take him so long to get back in touch

And his mother, why did he think she was dead without looking for her? She had no trouble finding him and getting in touch eventually?

It all sounds very strange to me. Did he want to cut himself off from his past?

A pack of lies has obviously been told and while you canā€™t blame a child, he seems to have wanted to keep it hush when he became a man?

So why now? Is it because he thinks heā€™s secure? Or did someone threaten to spill the beans and heā€™s pre-empting it?

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Well this is what happened with Philip Schofield wasnā€™t it? He broke up with a young lad he was having an affair with, who then threatened to ā€œoutā€ him, so Philip decided to go public - despite everyone in TV already knowing he was gay. NOT saying this is the case with Mo Farah, but to come clean at this point does make me wonder what or who has triggered it. He has his own reasons for speaking the truth now and its right that we shouldnā€™t judge, but its human instinct to be suspicious of things that are revealed to be all lies at the end of the day.

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Maree that post is a mine of speculation!
Watch the documentary and then speculate!
The woman who brought him here was trusted by his mum, she ripped up the details in front of him once they were here and told him he was then to do exactly what she told him.

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Yes, true, it is, but thereā€™s lots of questions to be answered, it all sounds well dodgey to me

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I wonder how long it will be before some Silver Medallers claim that they should had had the Gold?

It wonā€™t change the fact that they came second. :102:

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