Sir Mo Farah’s BBC One documentary reveals the secrets behind his life as a child trafficked to the UK from Somaliland at the age of nine. The show, set to air at 9pm today, Wednesday July 13, and available on iPlayer sees Mo explain the circumstances that led him to arrive in the UK.
In the one-off BBC documentary the Olympian, 39, reveals that his real name is Hussein Abdi Kahin and that he grew up during the Somali civil war. He speaks in detail about how his father was killed in the civil war whilst working as a farmer, Mo was four years old at the time and remembered his family being “torn apart” by the devastating event.
Mo journeys back to the farm in Somaliland where he spent his early years to speak with his mother Aisha and twin brother Hassan about the circumstances surrounding their separation. Aisha shares how she sent the twins to live with their uncle in neighbouring country of Djibouti to avoid the conflict and was unaware that Mo had been sent to the UK until years later.
