MO FARAH'S BROTHER FACES BEING DEPORTED BACK TO SOMALIA WHERE HE FEARS HE WILL BE KILLED
Thousands of proud Brits are poised to salute athletics legend Mo Farah at Olympic parades, but there’s one man who won’t be joining the cheers.
Mo is set to lead Team GB heroes at celebrations in London and Manchester – and is also tipped to receive a knighthood for grabbing gold in the 5,000 and 10,000 metres at two Games running.
But his younger brother Ahmed can’t enjoy or share the moment because he faces being booted out of Britain and sent back to Somalia.
Ahmed, 27, was just two when he and an eight-year-old Mo were brought to Britain 25 years ago.
Now he faces being deported back to the war-torn country for crimes that landed him in jail in the UK in 2011.
In a direct plea to officials planning to kick him out, Ahmed says: “I can’t go back to where Mo and I were born – it is too dangerous.
"I’m scared I would end up dead. I feel there’s no hope for me.
“I am afraid for my life. I have no roots in Somalia. People would kill me, because I’m different. They would not class me as their own.
“They’d see me as an outsider, somebody whose family ran away and they don’t want to welcome me back.”
Ahmed’s plea comes after he was among TV millions who witnessed Mo achieve athletics immortality by winning double gold at Rio.
But the brothers’ lives could barely be more different.
While Mo – now based in the US – has a wife, four kids and a fortune from athletics, Ahmed lives in a high-rise West London flat, biding his time as he awaits the dreaded news he must quit the UK.
It is the home he and Mo first lived in when their father Muktar brought them and another brother, Wahib, to Britain in 1991.
As Ahmed sat alone in the lounge of the one-bed flat, there was no trace of Mo, no pictures on display.
It is just the TV set in the corner which provides a window into the life of his superstar brother.
Ahmed says: “Mo and I do not see each other now or speak. Of course I am incredibly proud of what he has done and I am sure he will go on to achieve even more. But I’ve no idea what life holds for me.”
pathetic.
Mirroruk
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