Alex Skeel reveals Jordan Worth’s horrific domestic abuse in BBC documentary

WARNING – DISTURBING CONTENT: A man who was on the verge of death when police rescued him from his abusive girlfriend has told how he was stabbed, burned, starved and isolated by the woman he thought he loved.

In this eye-opening documentary, Alex Skeel from Bedfordshire in England, reveals the extent of the abuse he suffered at the hands of his controlling girlfriend, Jordan Worth.

“She would say things like, ‘I don’t like the colour grey, I don’t think you should wear grey,’” Mr Skeel, now 22, says in the BBC documentary Abused By My Girlfriend.

“Oh, I don’t like your hair, you should have it like that.”

“But I never took it as a negative. I probably wouldn’t wear it again – it wouldn’t impress her.”

Mr Skeel and Worth met through friends in 2012, when they were both 16, and quickly became a couple.

But over the years, Worth forced her partner to cut off contact with his family, took control of his phone and sent messages to his loved ones asking them not to contact him again.

She told Mr. Skeel that his grandfather had died. After two hours, as he cried and mourned his death, she confessed that she had lied.

After the intense emotional abuse, Worth began starving her boyfriend, giving him only leftovers. He lost nearly 20 kg.

According to the document, in 2016, the abuse escalated into violence, with Worth hitting her partner with a hammer or any weapon she could find and pouring boiling water over him while he slept.

On one occasion, after being beaten with a hairbrush, Mr. Skeel was forced to have his tooth pulled because he was not allowed to seek medical attention. When he needed urgent care for scalds caused by hot water, Worth also refused to have surgery.

According to the BBC, he had to bandage his second- and third-degree burns with cling film.

Eventually, when neighbours witnessed Mr Skeel’s continued injuries and heard one of the many brutal beatings, the police were called.

Mr Skeel was hesitant to reveal the truth about his injuries because he was afraid Worth would hurt him, but eventually he told officers about his girlfriend’s brutal attacks.

At the hospital, doctors told Mr. Skeel he was 10 days from death. He underwent surgery on his brain, head, and hands.

Worth was arrested, charged with grievous bodily harm and forcible control and sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison.

“People always ask me why I didn’t leave — but it’s so complicated,” Mr. Skeel said.

“I understand it better and better every day.”

In April 2018, Worth was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison after pleading guilty to grievous bodily harm and forcible control.

It was the first conviction in the UK for coercion against a woman.