BBC One’s The Real Mo Farah documentary will air tonight at 9pm and follows the powerful journey of Olympian Mo Farah as he uncovers the truth about his childhood. Mo was trafficked to the UK from Somaliland at the age of nine to work as a “domestic servant”.
In the documentary Mo, whose birth name is Hussein Abdi Kahin, reveals that he grew up during the Somali civil war and that his father was killed when he was four. He discusses the guilt of feeling he’d taken another person’s place by being trafficked into the UK using their name.
Later in the show Mo discovers what happened to the ‘real’ Mo Farah whose passport was used to traffic him into the country. It is one of many unsuspecting twists the hour-long documentary holds, with Mo Farah’s difficult start in life revealed.
