This hugely moving documentary sees the athlete bravely open up about being trafficked to the UK as a child, highlighting our government’s disgraceful demonisation of illegal immigrants
The knight’s tale … the BBC’s The Real Mo Farah., but two. The first is a knighted British national treasure who arrived in London as a little boy and went on to become the most successful male track distance-runner ever.
What happened next would give Priti Patel conniptions. “We go through passport check and the lady was going, ‘Don’t forget: Mohamed, Mohamed.’ I was like: ‘Yeah: Mohamed, Mohamed’ – ’cause that was on the document. Stamp! Go through. I can see this man standing, just looking around … waiting for them and his oldest son Mohamed. That’s when I realised I had taken Mohamed’s place.
As Farah recounts this grim childhood, I can’t help but think that in 2022, Home Office functionaries would put a case like his on the next flight to Rwanda. It’s hard, too, not to draw parallels between Farah’s case and the many Windrush generation immigrants who lived in the UK for decades without the correct papers before being sent back “home”, under cruel Tory-inspired Home Office rules, to lands they hadn’t visited in decades.
The most touching scenes come when we meet the Somali women who raised him. First, we see his mother, Aisha, interviewed in the family village, smiling as sweetly as her son, explaining how and why she sent him and his twin brother Hassan from the war zone to safety in Djibouti. She claims to know nothing of how he was trafficked to England, and then we see Farah’s reunion with the woman who gave him a proper home in London, aunt Kinsi.
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