Control freak girlfriend, 22, starving and stabbing lover, banning him from bed and more, gets jailed for 7 years

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Control freak girlfriend, 22, starving and stabbing lover, banning him from bed and more, gets jailed for 7 years

2018-04-18 12:10 Last Updated At：12:11

"She is from a loving and supportive family." What's wrong with her?

A ruling girlfriend who violently treated his partner suffered from series of injuries has been sent to jail for seven and a half years.

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22-year-old Petite Jordan Worth was accused of stabbing her boyfriend with a knife, scalding him with boiling water. Besides, she banned him from their bed and decided what clothes he should wear.

Worth was living with her boyfriend in the village of Stewwarby, Bedfordshire, where she isolated the man from his friends and dominated his Facebook account.

Worth is an aspiring who graduated from the University of Hertfordshire and had a loving and supportive family. It is reported that she had raised money for children in Africa while, contrastingly, Luton Crown Court heard she cruelly treated her partner in every single way.

The court the couple met at college in 2012 when they were both 16. Prosecutor Maryam Syed said the two started a relationship and later moved in together quickly.

Worth controlled her boyfriends from deciding his outfit at an early stage and she then turned violent towards the man who the court heard had hydrocephalus caused by increasing fluid inside his cranium.

She assaulted him with sharp objects, wounded him with a knife and didn't send him to hospital for any treatments. The court also revealed she didn't let him sleep in the same bed as her.

Neighbours of the couple often heard them arguing and sounds of things being thrown in the house, said Prosecutor Syed.

She said Neighbours could hear him shouting, "Get off me, you are hurting me", "Get off me. Get off my head. Don't keep doing that to my head."

Worth was once seen at a window by neighbour armed with a screwdriver or hammer.

Some saw burn marks on his arms and sometimes he's with bruised eyes, limping legs and an arm in a sling.

In June of last year, neighbours called the police after hearing shouting from the couple's home in the village again. The ambulance crew noted injuries to his hand, burns to arms and legs which were being self-treated with cling film.

He was then taken to Bedford Hospital's acute clinical unit and then to Addenbrookes Hospital.

He had second and third degree burns which will leave permanent scarring on the body. The court was told Worth had thrown boiling hot water over him.

He finished examination at the Lister Hospital Stevenage on 6 June and burns on his legs as well as stab wounds to his body and limbs were found.

Worth was arrested days later.

The court heard the couple are no longer together and Worth, who is in a new relationship, has been living at an address in Ingoldisthorpe, Norfolk. She pleaded guilty to controlling or coercive behaviour in an intimate relationship, wounding with intent and causing grievous bodily harm with intent between April 2016 to June last year.

Small business owners brace for Trump's proposed tariffs

2024-12-04 04:58 Last Updated At：05:00

Small businesses are bracing for stiff tariffs that President-elect Donald Trump has proposed as one of his first actions when he takes office.

Trump has proposed importers pay a 25% tax on all products entering the country from Canada and Mexico, and an additional 10% tariff on goods from China, as one of his first executive orders. He previously floated a tariff of up to 20% on everything else the United States imports.

This means small businesses may end up paying more for goods and services. Small business owners say they're waiting to see what final form the tariffs take, but are bracing for higher costs that they may in turn need to pass on to consumers.

Laurel Orley, cofounder and CEO of Nashville-based sprouted nut snack company Daily Crunch, said at first she didn't think the tariffs would affect her business, because she doesn't import very much. But she realized the tariffs will have a ripple effect. For example, she had planned on sourcing bags from China to save 5 cents a bag. But with the tariffs, she might need to scuttle that plan.

“That was one of our big initiatives for 2025, moving all our bags to China for 15 cents a bag,” she said. “And now I don’t know if we can save any money on the bags when the tariffs go into effect.”

Warehouse prices are going up because of the expected tariffs, too, Orley said. Her warehouse provider said demand has been increasing since the tariffs were announced.

“As many other companies are buying bulk inventory overseas to get ahead of tariffs, warehouse availability is becoming limited, which will increase costs for everyone,” she said.

So, Orley is trying to lock in her warehouse contract for 2025 and find a third-party logistics provider for the year, “to get ahead of what’s to come and pre-planning as much as we can,” she said.

Across the border in Canada, Julie Bednarski-Malik runs another snack company, Healthy Crunch, based in Mississauga, Ontario, that specializes in foods that are free of the top 11 major food allergens like peanut, tree nut and dairy as well as low in sugar.

She sells her products in both Canadian and U.S. retail stores, and said tariffs will affect consumers on both sides.

“If you have a severe anaphylactic reaction to some type of dairy or soy and you can’t find a product in the U.S. because we’re the only ones that make it, it’s going to be a lot more expensive for U.S. consumers," Bednarski-Malik said. ”So I think these tariffs are really not only going to be penalizing, you know, other countries such as Canada, but also U.S. consumers."

She's holding off on making any major changes in her business until the tariffs are finalized, but expects to see higher prices.

“Ultimately, the consumer is going to have to pay at the end of the day because our margins are so tight beginning with our food prices, (which) have been increasing dramatically over the last few years,” she said. “So there’s not much margin left to keep the same price and maintain that price while incurring a 25% extra tariff on our product.”