A young man who was violently assaulted, stabbed and burnt by his abusive girlfriend has revealed the extent of his horrific injuries for the first time in a harrowing documentary.
Alex Skeel, 22, from Bedfordshire was just 'days from death' when police knocked on his door in June 2017, leading to an investigation that saw the mother of his two children jailed for more than seven years.
Jordan Worth was the first female in the UK to be convicted of controlling or coercive behaviour, along with GBH, and her former childhood sweetheart now hopes to spread the message that women can be perpetrators of domestic violence too.
Alex relives his horrific five-year ordeal in new BBC Three documentary Abused By My Girlfriend, which reveals in heartbreaking detail how he went from a carefree teenager to being hit, stabbed and burnt on a regular basis.
Alex Skeel was violently assaulted, stabbed and burnt by his ex-girlfriend Jordan Worth for years of their relationship
Jordan was jailed for seven and a half years for her campaign of abuse, at one point even denying him of food
Alex was a typical football-mad 16-year-old when he first met Jordan at a concert in June 2012 and soon became besotted with her.
'She was very caring, confident, loving,' he says of the aspiring teacher. 'She just showed a real interest in me.'
Despite Alex's friends describing Jordan as 'delightful' and her boyfriend as 'quite smitten', Alex's mother Ged says it wasn't long before her behaviour 'started to change'.
'The longer they were together, and as the relationship grew, the mind games started playing,' she recalls.
Alex explains: '[Jordan would] say, I don't really like the colour grey, I don't think you should wear the colour grey.
'I don't like your hair like that, you should have your hair like this. I don't like the shoes you're wearing. But I never took it as a negative.'
Alex says that the abuse started off in the form of small remarks about his clothing and hair and later became physical. Pictured: The couple at the beginning of their relationship
Jordan would boil a kettle and pour over her boyfriend as an act of torture, and he admits he became concerned for their two children's safety
There was the time Alex's family treated her to a night at the theatre in London, only for her to disappear from the hotel in the middle of the night, sparking a frantic search, before reappearing in the hotel lobby an hour later, 'just laughing'.
Or the time she ruined Alex's 18th birthday party by 'screaming abuse' at a female family friend who she had grown jealous of.
But despite her erratic behaviour, Alex brushed off his family and friends' growing concerns, admitting: 'I was a bit clouded by what happened because at the time I loved her.'
Alex eventually tried to break things off, but Jordan came back with the bombshell revelation that she was pregnant and returned to his life a year later with baby Thomas J ('TJ') who was born in May 2014.
It wasn't long before the young couple were back together and, despite Alex's hopes that she had changed, the cracks soon reappeared.
Sgt. Ed Finn of Bedfordshire Police who arrested Jordan (pictured at her graduation) said that for 'all intents and purposes she seemed like a very nice lady'
In his police interview when asked by an officer how he feels about moving forward, Alex replies: 'I just don't want to get hurt anymore'
As Alex's best friend puts is: '[Jordan] just got back into his head to the point where you couldn't do anything to stop it.'
Before long, Jordan forced Alex to choose between her and his family, which resulted in the young couple moving into their own home in Stewartby in July 2016.
Just 19 at the time, Alex didn't speak to his parents for two years - even when he welcomed his second child, a little girl called Iris, in May 2017.
Things went from bad to worse when Jordan forced her boyfriend to change his phone number and threw away his PlayStation console to cut him off further from his loved ones.
She even set up a fake Facebook account where she would send abusive messages to Alex's friends in a bid to isolate him further.
Years later, when police questioned Jordan, she would blame it on Alex, saying: 'He made it very clear he never wanted to see his family.
'He said he hated his family and he doesn't want to
