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A cat-killer obsessive about violence and dying has been jailed for all times and informed to serve a minimal of 24 years after being convicted of murdering a person she intentionally focused as a part of a warped sexual fantasy impressed by a Netflix documentary. Scarlet Blake, 26, intentionally focused Jorge Martin Carreno, a 30-year-old Spanish nationwide, as he walked home from an evening out in Oxford in July 2021.
She led him to a secluded riverbank the place he was hit to the again of the top with a vodka bottle, strangled after which pushed into the River Cherwell the place he drowned, Oxford Crown Court heard. Blake, of Crotch Crescent, Oxford, denied homicide however was convicted on Friday (February 23) and will probably be sentenced on Monday morning (February 26).
Prosecutors mentioned Blake killed the BMW employee as a result of she had a “fixation with violence and with knowing what it would be like to kill someone”. His homicide got here 4 months after Blake live-streamed the sadistic killing of a cat, after which she dissected the animal, eliminated its fur and pores and skin and placed its physique in a blender.
During the horrific video, the New Order track True Faith performs within the background, which the courtroom heard was in homage to the Netflix documentary known as Don’t F*** with Cats through which a person kills kittens earlier than filming the homicide of a human.
During the trial, the courtroom heard Mr Martin Carreno had been out with work colleagues in Oxford metropolis centre and was attempting to get home when Blake discovered him sat down on the street. She was captured on CCTV prowling the streets of Oxford on the lookout for a sufferer carrying a heavy military-style hooded jacket, face masks and carrying a rucksack, which prosecutors mentioned contained a “homicide equipment” a garrotte and leopard print dressing robe wire, which she denied.
Blake additionally denied she was on the lookout for a sufferer that evening and as a substitute had gone for a walk as a result of she couldn’t sleep. She mentioned she walked with Mr Martin Carreno to Parsons Pleasure and left him there alive to go home. She informed the trial: “I don’t know how he died. I assumed he drowned. It wasn’t something I did. As to how, I still don’t know, I wasn’t there.”
It was steered Mr Martin Carreno might have taken his personal life, however any trace he was suicidal was rejected by his mates. An empty bottle of vodka was discovered within the river and the bottle high was close by on the financial institution, which had traces of the defendant’s DNA on it.
Home Office pathologist Dr Brett Lockyer mentioned he didn’t consider it possible the Spanish nationwide might have died unintentionally. He dominated out the chance Jorge died instantly after being strangled with a broad ligature or neck maintain and mentioned he drowned.
The courtroom heard Blake confess to former associate Ashlynn Bell, who lives within the US, that she had killed Mr Martin Carreno with a selfmade garrotte earlier than throwing his physique within the water. According to Thames Valley Police, Black has proven to be a personality that lacks empathy and has lived life in fantasy, devoid of actuality, with a whole lack of any regret or compassion all through the investigation.
