Article 61FYA ‘I could have been a Mo Farah’: trafficked boxer denied his shot at Olympic glory by Home Office

‘I could have been a Mo Farah’: trafficked boxer denied his shot at Olympic glory by Home Office

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Annie Kelly
from World news | The Guardian on (#61FYA)

Kelvin Bilal Fawaz reveals how Farah's TV interview was a reminder of how his own boxing career was lost to life in immigration limbo

A prodigious talent with the drive and ambition to make it all the way to the top, when Kelvin Bilal Fawaz got the chance to represent Team GB as a boxer at the 2012 Olympics in London it was a dream come true.

Trafficked as a child from Nigeria to the UK and forced into domestic servitude, Fawaz had the opportunity for Olympic glory in the place he now called home.

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