A fine art graduate has been jailed for seven and a half years after admitting that she had stabbed her boyfriend, poured boiling water over him and banned him from their bed.

Jordan Worth, 22, had controlled every aspect of her boyfriend’s life since they met at college at the age of 16. Luton crown court was told that she had isolated him from his friends and taken over his Facebook account.

Maryam Syed, prosecuting, said that Worth had exercised control over him after they moved in together in the village of Stewartby, Bedfordshire. She became violent and used blunt objects to hurt him, wounded him with a knife and did not help him to get hospital treatment. For nine months the man, who has