I've just read the Daily Mail story.
Amazing..
He said his father had abandoned him and his younger brother Abiy, 20, after their asylum claim was rejected in 2004. He also said his older brother Benyam, now 28, looked after them for three years before leaving them stranded in 2007.
But on Monday, he had the pair listed as ‘friends’ on Facebook, with Benyam stating on his profile that he lives in London.
Mr Kebede’s father has worked as an air traffic controller for Ethiopian Airlines and lives in a three-bedroom house worth £90,000 in a middle-class suburb of Addis Ababa.
The house, which he shares with his wife Tayech Getachew, was built by Mr Bedane after his application for asylum failed in the UK.
A neighbour said the couple had two vehicles – one an 11 seater minibus – and they employ a maid.
It appear flying runs in the family and friends
Registration documents completed when Yonas Kebede enrolled in nursery at Miskaye Hizunan Medhanealem church school confirm his date of birth as the seventh day of the third month of 1980, which is November 17, 1987 in the UK calendar. His baptism certificate confirmed the details.
His uncle, who lived just around the corner, was a pilot for Ethiopian airlines and three of Yonas’s classmates are also now pilots.
Revealed: Asylum seeker given £10,000 flying lessons on the taxpayer lied about his age to be cared for as a child and falsely claimed his parents were dead or missing | Mail Online