Officers from Bedfordshire Police found Alex Skeel, from Stewartby, cowering on the stairs after receiving a call from concerned neighbours who had heard him screaming following his 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 charts how he was violently assaulted, stabbed, starved 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, finding the bathroom spattered in blood and Alex, who was bleeding from the wrists, bandaged using a football sock.
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.
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