A girl obsessive about violence and dying has blamed her ex-partner for making her live-stream the sadistic killing of a cat, a court docket has heard.
Scarlet Blake, 26, who’s on trial accused of murdering a person, used meals and a crate to seize the household pet and take it to her home the place she killed it.
Oxford Crown Court heard particulars of how Blake dissected the animal after killing it, eliminated the fur and pores and skin and putting it in a blender.
Prosecutors allege the killing is related to the homicide trial because it reveals she has a “disturbing interest in what it would be like to harm a living creature”.
Blake is accused of murdering Jorge Martin Carreno, 30, in Oxford metropolis centre in July 2021.
It is alleged the BMW employee suffered blows to his head, was strangled after which drowned within the River Cherwell.
Giving proof, Blake blamed her ex-partner Ashlynn Bell, who lives within the US, for making her kill the cat.
“I suppose it came to a situation where I didn’t really feel I was able to refuse that request from her where she asked me to do it for her,” Blake stated.
“It is something I very much didn’t want, so I suppose I emotionally distanced myself from the animal to be able to do it.
“So, she doesn’t hurt me otherwise, as she will, and does when I don’t listen to her.
“It is something to make her happy and it is something she wanted me to do, so I pretended to enjoy it, I guess.”
Richard Sutton KC, defending, requested Blake about her smiling her on the digicam through the video.
The defendant replied: “It was a very choreographed laugh. I am pretty sure my face was not like that the whole time.”
Blake, who has pleaded responsible to a cost of legal harm regarding killing the cat, defined she enjoys taking aside “inanimate objects” and “seeing how they are put together”.
“I guess I was just pretending the cat isn’t real or sentient,” she stated.
She defined to the jury how she felt compelled by Ms Bell to kill the cat, which occurred 4 months earlier than Mr Carreno died.
“There was a building up and her conditioning me to obey what she tells me to do,” she stated.
“She would make me do things on video call like cutting myself or setting up a noose from the ceiling and putting my head through it.
“I would be rewarded if I did it promptly and followed instructions and I would be punished if I don’t.”
Blake described the main points of graphic on-line chat between the couple as “fantasy” and for Ms Bell’s “sexual gratification”.
“The whole thing is a suspension from reality,” the defendant stated.
“For her, I am sure it would have been sexually arousing. For me it is a reciprocation for her pleasure.”
Earlier, Blake had defined to the jury she was born in China and got here to stay within the UK aged 9.
Age 12 she informed her dad and mom she was transgender and since 17 has been on remedy to dam testosterone, and likewise takes oestrogen dietary supplements.
Jurors heard that Blake had been recognized with despair when she was younger and had a fragmented persona, together with being a cat for which she would meow at associates.
“There’s a part that is just a cat, which is strange and that seems to me what the happy part of me is. In that they come out when I am happy,” she informed the jury.
“With friends I know quite well who are aware of this part of me I meow at them in greeting.
“It is quite strange it is very prominent when I am expressing certain emotions.
“For example, the cat has a pretty strong association with joy, and I suppose the innate goodness. It is a kind of childhood innocence.”
Blake additionally did an impression of a meowing cat to point out the jury how she would meow at her associates.
Mr Sutton requested whether or not she had “any other sides” to her persona, and Blake replied: “There have been many that come and goes.
“I wouldn’t say I would fit a textbook definition of dissociative identity disorder in that there are not hard boundaries.
“For me it is more fluid.”
Blake, of Crotch Crescent, Oxford, denies homicide.
The trial was adjourned till Tuesday.
