Abused By My Girlfriend

This is the remarkable story of Alex Skeel, an ordinary 22 year-old football coach from Bedfordshire who was involved in a violent relationship with girlfriend and mother to their two young children, Jordan Worth.

But Alex was not the perpetrator. He was the victim. And for nearly five years he endured psychological and violence abuse of the worst kind - where he was starved, repeatedly stabbed, burnt and coercively controlled by Jordan. His abuse was so severe, when Alex was able to finally cry for help, medics said he was just 10 days away from death.

This is one of the most extreme cases of domestic violence witnessed by Bedfordshire Police, and in April 2018 Jordan was sentenced to seven and half years for GBH and coercive controlling behaviour - the UK's first conviction for coercive control involving a female offender.

This compelling and thought-provoking film for BBC three will be boldly authored by Alex. We’ll follow him on a personal journey as he revisits the people he knew and the places he was abused, to ask with unflinching honesty how he became a victim, why he felt he could not escape, and whether he will ever be able to have a normal relationship again.

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