Ep. 089 & 090 | 10 Days from Death: The Torture of Alex Skeel

Written By Kelsey Mutch

In June of 2017, police in Bedfordshire, England responded to repeated domestic disturbance calls and found 21-year-old Alex Skeel injured and bleeding each time - only for him to insist his wounds were self-inflicted and beg officers to leave. On their third visit in just over a week, seeing Alex in daylight for the first time, officers were confronted with a scene so horrific it stayed with them for years: Alex was skeletal, weighed under 100 pounds, and was covered in untreated burns, deep knife wounds, and bruises in every stage of healing, his body infected and his hair matted with dried blood. He was rushed to the hospital suffering from sepsis, fluid on the brain, and severed tendons, and doctors later said he was at most ten days from death. His injuries resembling those of a tortured prisoner of war, inflicted not by an enemy, but by his own partner and the mother of his children, 21-year-old Jordan Worth.

SOURCES:

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