Chilling CCTV exhibits a cat killer obsessive about violence and demise allegedly walking the streets of a metropolis centre on the lookout for a sufferer.
Prosecutors say Scarlet Blake, 25, was looking out the streets of Oxford on the lookout for somebody to kill, and located Jorge Martin Carreno, 30, who was unable to seek out his method home.
Blake is accused of taking the BMW manufacturing facility employee to the secluded Parsons Pleasure space, and attacking him there within the early hours of July 25, 2021.
Mr Carreno’s physique was discovered face down within the River Cherwell the next day, having drowned.
Blake, who denies homicide, is on trial at Oxford Crown Court, the place jurors have been proven CCTV digital camera footage of Mr Carreno and Blake’s actions across the metropolis centre hours earlier than his demise.
The footage exhibits Mr Carreno, a Spanish nationwide, looking for his method home, and never realising he has dropped his pockets.
As he walks round Oxford, the defendant can also be seen walking the streets, carrying a particular combat-style jacket with hood over her head, with a facemask and carrying a rucksack.
Eventually Mr Carreno is seen sitting down in Radcliffe Square, the place Blake later finds him and shares her vodka with him.
Alison Morgan KC, prosecuting, instructed the jury: ‘He died as a result of he encountered the defendant on that night time.
‘He died as a result of he met a person who had a fixation with violence and with understanding what it will really feel wish to kill somebody.
‘At a time when Mr Carreno grew to become separated from associates and maybe misplaced and vulnerable, Mr Carreno had the nice misfortune of being approached by this defendant within the early hours on July 25 2021.
‘The defendant was out on the streets of Oxford that night time on the lookout for a sufferer.
‘She focused him and took him to Parsons Pleasure, the place she killed him, leaving his physique to be found by others over 24 hours later.’
Ms Morgan added: ‘Whilst it was horrible misfortune for Mr Carreno that he ended up remoted in Oxford within the early hours of July 25 2021, attempting to work out how he may get home, for this defendant it was no accident that she discovered him and took him to a secluded location that she knew properly, having gone previous there earlier that night time.
‘The defendant deliberate an attack on a person that night time and went out looking for a vulnerable goal.
‘The deceased grew to become vulnerable by advantage of his separation from his group and the truth that he had misplaced his pockets, misplaced his pockets and did not know the way he was going to get home.
‘The defendant focused him and took him to the realm of the river.
‘She then attacked the deceased, most probably by hanging him to the again of the shoulder after which strangling him both together with her fingers or a ligature. She then pushed his physique into the river.’
Blake had, months earlier than Mr Carreno’s demise, live-streamed the sadistic killing and dissection of a cat, together with placing it in a blender, after watching a Netflix documentary known as Don’t F*** With Cats.
In the programme the person, Luka Magnotta, kills kittens earlier than filming a homicide.
Jurors have additionally seen movies of the defendant and her accomplice participating in consensual strangulation with ligatures.
