Abdul Musa Adam was seven years old when he set out on the journey that would take him from Darfur in Africa, all the way to Royal Ascot, at the heart of the British racing establishment.
It wasn’t a journey he had planned to take – he loved his life in Sudan looking after the horses, and he had never heard of the UK.
But his home had just been burned down by the helicopter gunships of the Sudanese government, aided by militias. This is how migrant journeys start.
Abdul’s parents and two sisters died in the attack, murdered with hundreds of others. Abdul and his three-year-old brother, Yusuf, left on foot, with two neighbours and a donkey.
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