Abused by my girlfriend: Alex Skeel reveals injuries from Jordan Worth

This is the dramatic moment police swooped in to rescue a 21-year-old man who was 'days from death' following months of violent attacks from his abusive girlfriend.

Officers from Bedfordshire Police found Alex Skeel, then 21, from Stewartby, cowering on the stairs after receiving a call from concerned neighbours who had heard him screaming following the latest attack at the hands of Jordan Worth.

Worth regularly attacked him with 'weapons' including a hammer, a screwdriver, bread knives and a broken hairbrush in a nine-month campaign of domestic abuse that left him 'ten days away from death' according to medics.

Now 22, Alex - a football coach - has revealed the extent of his horrific injuries for the first time in a BBC documentary that reveals how he was violently assaulted, stabbed and burnt by the mother of his two children, who was jailed in April 2018.

Alex lost almost 4 stone after being deprived food, but stayed with Worth, an aspiring teacher, because he was 'in love with' her and feared losing custody of his children, he says. 

Bodycam footage from a police visit on 3 June 2017 shows officers entering the couple's home, and finding the bathroom spattered in blood. 

Sgt. Ed Finn, who was on the scene, recalls: '[Jordan] let us in and we went upstairs. At the top of the stairs Alex was sat with a towel wrapped around his arm and just blood everywhere. There was a large serrated kitchen knife... then I noticed other injuries on Alex.'

Initially, Alex blamed himself for his injuries in a bid to protect his partner and Jordan was not arrested until a subsequent police visit several weeks later.

In April 2018 Jordan Worth became the first female in the UK to be convicted of controlling or coercive behaviour and was jailed for more than seven years, and Alex now hopes to encourage more men to speak out about domestic violence. 

The father-of-two was alarmingly thin and in poor health by the time of Jordan's arrest, after his untreated burns became infected and he developed hydrocephalus, a build-up of fluid on the brain, caused by major head trauma.

Alex relives his horrific ordeal in Abused by my Girlfriend which reveals in harrowing detail how he went from a carefree teenager to being hit, stabbed and burnt with boiling water on a regular basis.

Shocking images in the documentary show Alex's bruised and bloodied legs, scarred wrists and skin hanging off his arm where he was scalded with water from a kettle. 

Alex was a football-mad 16-year-old when he first met Jordan at a college 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 friends describing Jordan as 'delightful' and her boyfriend as 'quite smitten', Alex's mother Ged says it wasn't long before her behaviour took a dark turn.

'The longer they were together, and as the relationship grew, the mind games started playing,' Ged recalls.

'[Jordan would] say, I don't really like the colour grey, I don't think you should wear the colour grey,' Alex recalls.

'[She'd say] 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. It was more like, I won't wear it again - it won't impress her.'

On one occasion, 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'. 

Another 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. 

Alex's best friend explains: '[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, Bedfordshire in July 2016.

Just 19 at the time, Alex didn't speak to his parents for two years - even when the couple welcomed their 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 Facebook account in Alex's name where she would send abusive messages to his 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 talk to his family. He wants nothing to do with his family.' 

In time, Jordan became so controlling she took Alex's wallet away, forcing him to quit the job he loved and instead accompany her to classes at the University of Hertfordshire where she could keep a watchful eye on him. 

Alex claims things deteriorated to the point where his girlfriend would attack or assault him 'every day', and on one occasion she made him swallow an entire packet of sleeping pills.

During one attack, Jordan severed the tendons in his right hand with a bread knife, on another occasion she attacked him with a broken hairbrush, breaking his tooth in the process. 

'I had no money, I didn't drive, so in the end I just ripped the tooth out,' Alex says, recalling how being struck with screwdrivers, hammers and knives became part of everyday life.