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A girl live-streamed the sadistic killing of a cat 4 months earlier than she brutally murdered a person, a court docket has heard.
Scarlet Blake, 25, is accused of focusing on Jorge Martin Carreno, 30, as he walked home from a night-out in Oxford in July 2021.
His physique was discovered within the River Cherwell at Parsons Pleasure having obtained what seemed to be a blow to the again of his head after which having drowned.
The court docket additionally heard Blake had watched a Netflix documentary referred to as Don’t F*** with Cats through which a person kills kittens earlier than filming the homicide of a human .
Oxford Crown Court heard it took two years for the occasions of that night time to be “properly understood” and that Mr Carreno didn’t die from an accident or taking his personal life, however by the hands of the defendant.
Prosecutors allege Blake killed Mr Carreno as a result of she had a “fixation with violence and with knowing what it would be like to kill someone”.
Alison Morgan KC, prosecuting, advised the jury: “He died because he encountered the defendant on that night.
“He died because he met a person who had a fixation with violence and with knowing what it would feel like to kill someone.
“At a time when Mr Carreno became separated from friends and perhaps lost and vulnerable, Mr Carreno had the great misfortune of being approached by this defendant in the early hours on July 25 2021.
“The defendant was out on the streets of Oxford that night looking for a victim. She targeted him and took him to Parsons Pleasure, where she killed him, leaving his body to be discovered by others over 24 hours later.”
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Ms Morgan defined that through the police investigation detectives have constructed up an image of her background.
“The prosecution alleges that this defendant had an extreme interest in death and in harm,” she advised the jury.
“It was an interest that went beyond mere fantasy. She described herself to others as being someone who derived sexual gratification from the thought of violence and the thought of death.
“Videos of her with one of her partners engaging in acts of strangulation, consensually, in a sexualised context.
“She spoke to others about what it would be like to kill someone.
“She looked at imagery and saved it on her devices that showed an interest in ligatures being applied around the neck. She talked about harming herself.”
The prosecutor went on to elucidate how months earlier than the alleged homicide, Blake had livestreamed the killing and dissection of a cat.
The court docket heard Blake used meals and a crate to seize the cat and take it to her home the place she killed the animal.
“The defendant’s actions towards the cat show planning, in particular the purchasing of equipment necessary to do what she wanted to do to this cat, and demonstrated a fixation with what it would feel like to cause harm to others,” Ms Morgan mentioned.
“They reveal her grotesque pleasure in causing harm to a cat.”
In the video, through which the New Order music True Faith performs within the background, Blake tells the cat: “Here we go my little friend. Oh boy, you smell like shit. I can’t wait to put through the blender.”
The similar New Order music performed within the background within the video through the Netflix documentary referred to as Don’t F*** with Cats.
Trailer for Don’t F*** with Cats:
Don’t F**ok With Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer | Official Trailer
The prosecutor advised the court docket: “After killing the cat, the defendant then went on, while still on the livestream, to dissect it.
“This process included inserted a scalpel blade and handle into the cat’s eyes. She then removed its fur and skin, and then placed the body of the cat into a blender.
“This is not simply about killing a defenceless animal. Its relevance to this trial is the defendant’s overall demeanour.
“The footage shows her to be someone who had a disturbing interest in what it would be like to harm a living creature. What it would feel like to cause suffering before taking a life away.”
Blake “boasted” concerning the killing with others and “her desire to open up a person like her ‘little cat friend’”.
“It is clear that in her own mind she made a connection between what it felt like to harm this cat and what it would feel like to harm a person,” Ms Morgan mentioned.
Jurors have been proven movies of the defendant and her associate partaking in consensual strangulation with ligatures.
One reveals her associate sat on a mattress pulling the wire from the leopard print dressing robe tight round her neck till she seems to break down after which breathe closely as she recovers.
The second clip reveals Blake pulling a white wire tight round associate’s neck from behind together with her once more collapsing then recovering.
Ms Morgan mentioned: “There is a fascination with ligatures for sexual gratification.
“Whatever it is about the fascination with the dressing gown, it must have been in her head and led her to take a selfie just an hour or so with that dressing gown before she found Mr Carreno.”
The court docket additionally heard Blake had allegedly mentioned together with her associate Mr Carreno’s homicide.
Referring to being within the firm of a person, Blake messaged her, saying: “Last time I found someone this drunk they died lol.”
The defendant, of Crotch Crescent, Oxford denies homicide.
The trial was adjourned till Thursday.
