Alex Skeel

Alexander Gerald Skeel (born 17 August 1995)[2] is an English football coach, domestic violence survivor whose near-fatal abuse at the hands of his girlfriend, Jordan Worth (born 1995), attracted widespread media coverage owing to the extreme nature of the abuse. Worth controlled, beat, stabbed, starved and tortured Skeel, leaving him with severed tendons, fluid on the brain and burns. She also prevented him from receiving medical treatment for injuries she inflicted.

Alex Skeel
Born
Alexander Gerald Skeel[1]

(1995-08-17) 17 August 1995[2]
Luton, Bedfordshire, England[1]
OccupationFootball coach
Known forDomestic violence survivor

Worth became the first woman to be convicted of the United Kingdom's coercive control offence and in 2018 was jailed for a total of seven and half years for her crimes.

Skeel has been interviewed numerous times in the media about the abuse he suffered and his story was told in a BBC Three documentary Abused By My Girlfriend which was first shown in February 2019.[3] He is an Ambassador for domestic violence charity The ManKind Initiative.

Early life

Skeel was born prematurely on 17 August 1995 along with his twin brother. Weighing just two pounds, he was placed in intensive care and underwent multiple operations as a baby. They lived in Putnoe, north of Bedford. The twins were child models for supermarket chain Asda.[2]

Relationship with Worth

Skeel and Jordan Worth met at college in 2012 when they were both aged 16.[4] Worth, previously a gymnast, later attended the University of Hertfordshire, obtaining a degree in Fine Arts; she wanted to become a teacher.[5] At the age of eighteen Worth became pregnant with their first child, a son, and after his birth the couple moved to Stewartby. They broke up in June 2017.

Domestic abuse

Worth's abuse had begun early in the relationship, controlling which clothes Skeel wore and assaulting him.[6] Skeel was isolated from his family, with Worth sending messages from his phone telling them not to contact him anymore.[7] She then broke his mobile phone and took over his social media accounts, setting up a Facebook account in his name which she controlled.[8] She falsely told Skeel that his grandfather had died, and then berated him for caring about his family for crying about the news.[4]

The abuse escalated, with coercive control deemed to have occurred between April 2016 to June 2017.[5]

References
  1. "Search Results for Civil Births in Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records". findmypast.co.uk. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
  2. "Miracle 'Lineker baby' Alex becomes domestic abuse ambassador". www.bedfordtoday.co.uk.
  3. "Abused By My Girlfriend". BBC iPlayer. 18 February 2019. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  4. "Male abuse survivor was 'days from death'". 17 April 2018 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  5. Ward, Victoria (16 April 2018). "Controlling girlfriend 'first woman convicted' of new domestic abuse offence" – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
  6. "Woman jailed for controlling partner". 16 April 2018 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  7. "Man reveals horrific abuse at the hands of his girlfriend". uk.news.yahoo.com.
  8. Smith, Mark (18 February 2019). "Alex Skeel: In the end, I would have been murdered" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
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