Oxford: Cat killer who told her lover that strangling and drowning random man was ‘hot’ jailed for murder

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A girl who live-streamed the dissection and killing of a cat has been jailed for life for murdering an harmless man by drowning him in a river.

Scarlet Blake, 26, walked the streets of Oxford trying for a sufferer till she encountered Jorge Martin Carreno, 30, in the course of the early hours of 26 July 2021.

She persuaded him to accompany her to the secluded Parsons Pleasure space, the place she is believed to have hit him with an object, strangled him till he misplaced consciousness and then drowned him within the River Cherwell.

Jurors heard that Blake had a “fixation with violence and with knowing what it would be like to kill someone”, and obtained sexual gratification from the considered loss of life. After murdering Mr Carreno, she told a brand new accomplice that she had accomplished so as a result of “my lover said it would be hot”.

Just 4 months beforehand, she had live-streamed the horrific killing of a cat in a homage to the Netflix documentary Don’t F*** with Cats. After luring her neighbour’s pet with meals and a crate, she dissected the animal, eradicating its fur and pores and skin earlier than inserting its physique in a blender.

During the video, the New Order track True Faith may be heard taking part in within the background whereas Blake may be heard saying: “Here we go my little friend. Oh boy, you smell like s***. I can’t wait to put you through the blender.”

She later saved its coronary heart as a memento and posed with the animal’s severed head.

At the time, Blake had been in an internet relationship with a girl, Ashlynn Bell, within the US, with the 2 often discussing gore, murder and strangulation collectively.

The court docket heard that Blake confessed her actions to Ms Bell, however told jurors in her proof that she had carried out her violent actions to please her accomplice, who had wished her to kill somebody.

Jurors have been proven movies of the defendant and Ms Bell partaking in consensual strangulation, with Blake tightening a ligature to the purpose her accomplice appeared to fall unconscious.

For two years, Mr Carreno’s destiny was unknown regardless of CCTV appeals to determine Blake, till Ms Bell contacted Thames Valley Police in April 2023.

The Spanish nationwide had been out socialising with work colleagues at a neighborhood pub and had been strolling residence when he encountered Blake, who supplied him her bottle of vodka.

She had been wandering across the metropolis’s streets and was seen on CCTV sizing up potential victims earlier than selecting Mr Carreno, who was slighter in stature and extra weak after consuming alcohol.

Dressed in a heavy military-style jacket with a facemask, prosecutors instructed that she was carrying a “murder kit” in her rucksack, which consisted of a home made garotte and a leopard print dressing robe chord.

She told jurors that she had walked with Mr Carreno to the secluded riverside space and left him there alive to go residence, claiming she had no information of how he died.

However, recommendations that he might have killed himself have been rejected by his household and mates whereas a Home Office pathologist mentioned he didn’t imagine the BMW employee died by chance.

It later emerged that Blake had spoken about her want to kill in Parsons Pleasure as she knew it was “unseen and undisturbed” and had returned to the crime scene no less than twice to take photos to maintain as mementos.

“The taking of these photographs showed a profound contempt for the suffering of Jorge’s family and loved ones,” the decide mentioned. “You were completely indifferent to this suffering.”

During her proof, Blake claimed she had a fragmented character, which included being a cat, and meowed on the jury to indicate how she would work together with mates.

She additionally claimed that it was Ms Bell who had wished her to kill a human after making her live-stream the killing of the animal.

Having moved to the UK from China when she was 9 years previous, Blake transitioned on the age of 12 and told the court docket she had a tough relationship with her mother and father.

Accusing her of searching for accountable others for the murder, Mr Justice Chamberlain this was a part of an “elaborate attempt to rationalise what you had done”.

“It is not the fault of a society that didn’t accept you, it it not the fault of your parents,” he mentioned. “Whatever role Ashlynn Bell may have played in encouraging your interest in killing, she remained in the US.

“She did not control or direct you. Even if the decision was motivated in part by a desire to please her, the decision to kill was entirely yours.”

He added that there had been a “clear sexual motivation” for the killing, and that Blake had used her standing as a murdered to safe the admiration of others who shared her pursuits in violence.

She had denied murder however was discovered responsible after six hours of deliberations and has now been jailed for life with a minimal time period of 24 years.

Mr Justice Chamberlain mentioned: “Your decision to kill Jorge was not a reaction to something he had said or done. It was not a momentary mistake, It was not a decision made in anger or your emotions overcame you.

“It was a culmination of a plan you had been considering and formulating for months before and after 25 July as you showed an obsession with harm and death.”