Controlling girlfriend who starved lover, stabbed him and banned him from bed

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Richard Hartley-Parkinson for Metro.co.uk




This is the controlling girlfriend who carried out a catalogue of abuse against her boyfriend including depriving him of food and banning him from her bed.

Jordan Worth, 22, took advantage of her vulnerable boyfriend but is now serving a seven-and-a-half-year prison sentence.

Luton Crown Court heard that she:

• Stabbed him
• Poured boiling water on him
• Took control of his Facebook page
• Banned him from their bed
• Told him what clothes he should wear
• Hit him with blunt objects
• Failed to help him get hospital treatment

The couple met in 2012 when they were both 16 years old, but from the beginning she started to control him.

It started with telling him what he should wear and eventually she took control of his Facebook telling him which friends he could see and when.

Most of the abuse took place at their home in Stewartby, Bedfordshire, where she wouldn’t allow him into their bed for nine months.



Luton Crown Court was told that the victim, who is not being identified, suffered from hydrocephalus, which is caused by a build-up of fluid inside the skull and made him vulnerable.

The bullying culminated in her using objects to strike him, wounding him with a knife and then failing to get him any medical help.

Her ex-boyfriend’s misery came to an end in June when neighbours called police to the couple’s home in the early hours after hearing shouting.

The ambulance crew noted injuries to his hand, burns to arms and legs that were being self-treated with cling film.

There was also cling film round his ankles, and a hand wound that was bleeding.

He was taken to hospital where it was discovered he had second and third degree burns that left permanent scarring and ‘5 per cent of his total body surface was scalded.’

Neighbours added they had often heard the couple arguing and the victim was seen on occasions with black eyes, a limp and with his arm in sling.

During one incident Worth was seen at window ‘armed’ with a screwdriver or hammer, the court was told.

Worth was later arrested and admitted charges of controlling or coercive behaviour in an intimate relationship, wounding with intent and causing grievous bodily harm with intent.

The court heard university graduate Worth, who is now in a new relationship, had two sides and came from a loving and supportive family and had previously carried out voluntary work.

She was made the subject of a restraining order which prevents her from contacting her ex for an indefinite period.

Worth had discouraged her former partner from contacting his family during the abusive relationship.

Judge Nic Madge said: ‘She accepts that she has in the past, on a number of occasions, used blunt objects and implements to strike him and that he suffered injuries as a result of her doing so.

‘She accepts using boiling or hot water to cause injury to him.’