Barack Obama's brother stopped from entering UK after lying to police over sex allegations



The half-brother of President Barack Obama was refused an entry visa to Britain after lying to police officers about an accusation of sexual assault.

The deception occurred in November when Samson Obama, who lives in Kenya, was in Britain staying with his mother, who lives in Berkshire.

He was questioned by police about the alleged assault – which he denied – but during the investigation he used a false name and he later received a police caution.



When he applied for another visa, hoping to visit Britain last week, he was refused.

Barack Obama with his brother Samson , left, and brother Ben, right, in 1987 in Nairobi before he went to Harvard

The news will be embarrassing to the US President, who had given his younger half-brother a personal tour of the White House in January when he attended the historic inauguration.

Samson, 41, and Barack, 47, are sons of Barack Obama Snr, a former goat-herder from Kenya.

Samson’s mother Kezia was Barack Snr’s first wife in Kenya. The President’s mother is Barack Snr’s second wife Ann Denham, a white American from Kansas.

Barack Snr left America in 1965 with his third wife to return to Africa where he rekindled his relationship with Kezia and Samson was born. Barack Snr was killed in a car crash when the President was 21.

President Obama and Samson first met in 1987 when Barack traced his family in Kenya.

Samson’s mother now takes pride of place at family gatherings, after the death of President Obama’s mother in 1995.

It is understood that immigration officers scrutinising Samson’s recent visa application had discovered that, at the time of his arrest in November, he had been living illegally with Kezia in Bracknell for the previous seven years.

The news will be embarrassing for President Obama

After the alleged sexual assault, Samson told police that he was a binman called Henry Aloo, giving them his mother’s address.

His DNA, fingerprints and photograph were taken. Samson was given a caution for a public order offence but he denied sexual assault.



Detectives did not take any further action over the alleged attack.

Samson returned to Kenya and successfully applied for a transit visa to the UK in order to travel to his half brother’s inauguration in January.



His plane landed at Heathrow during the trip and he spent a night there.

After returning to Kenya again, he applied for a tourist visa to visit his mother in Bracknell, and immigration officials discovered a mismatch.



His fingerprints matched details for Henry Aloo – the name he had given officers in Britain following the alleged sexual assault.

Samson was confronted at the UK Borders Agency office in Nairobi where he was denied a visa on the grounds of deception.



It is understood that Samson denied that the offences related to him and claimed his passport had been stolen.

To support his visa application, Samson is believed to have submitted documents showing that he had a business in Nairobi. Last night it was reported that the documents were forged.

A spokesman for the UK Border Agency said: ‘We oppose the entry of all individuals to the UK where we believe their presence is not conducive to the public good.’

In President Obama’s 1995 book, Dreams From My Father, he writes of meeting Samson for the first time and how he expressed disappointment that the portable tape recorder Barack brought for him as a gift was not a Sony.