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A UK man who was violently abused by his now ex-girlfriend has revealed the extent of his horrific injuries for the first time in a new documentary.

Alex Skeel, 22, was just "10 days from death" when police arrived at his home in June 2017.

In BBC's new documentary Abused By My Girlfriend, he has revealed how he was starved, stabbed with a bread knife, beaten and burnt with a kettle full of boiling water all at the hands of his then-girlfriend Jordan Worth.



Worth was the first female in the UK to be convicted of controlling or coercive behaviour and grievous bodily harm.

Alex, a football coach, was 16 when he met Jordan, his first girlfriend, through friends in June 2012.

"She was very caring, confident, loving," he said of Worth. "She just showed a real interest in me."

But it didn't take long for Worth's controlling behaviour to creep in.

"She used to say things like 'I don't really like the colour grey, I don't think you should wear the colour grey'. 'Oh I don't like your hair like that, you should have your hair like this'.

"But I never took it as a negative. It was more like, 'I won't wear it again - it won't impress her'," he said in the new BBC documentary.

During one of the couple's rows, Worth snapped Alex's SIM card in half, ruining his 18th birthday celebrations with family and friends.

The couple broke up, but then Worth dropped the bombshell that she was pregnant and had given birth to their son in May 2014.

By January 2015, Worth had appeared to have changed with motherhood and the couple were back together.

But again her true colours emerged. Worth cut off contact between Alex and his friends and family controlling his social media accounts and phone. She would send messages to them saying he hated them to try to isolate him.