A lady with ‘an extreme interest in death’ livestreamed the sadistic mutilation and killing of a cat months earlier than murdering a person she met on the road, a courtroom 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 suffered what gave the impression to be a blow to the again of his head earlier than drowning. But jurors at Oxford Crown Court heard it was one other two years earlier than the occasions of that evening could possibly be ‘properly understood’.
Alison Morgan KC, prosecuting, instructed them Mr Carreno died as a result of he crossed paths with Blake that evening, including: ‘He died because he met a person who had a fixation with violence and with knowing what it would feel like to kill someone.’
She went on to clarify how months earlier than the alleged homicide, Blake had livestreamed the killing and dissection of a cat.
Blake was mentioned to have 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 in the direction of the cat present planning, particularly the buying of kit essential to do what she wished to do to this cat, and demonstrated a fixation with what it might really feel prefer to trigger hurt to others,’ Ms Morgan mentioned.
‘They reveal her grotesque pleasure in causing harm to a cat.’
In the video, by which the New Order tune True Faith performs within the background, Blake tells the cat: ‘Here we go my little friend. Oh boy, you smell like s**t. I can’t wait to place you thru the blender.’
Ms Morgan instructed the courtroom: ‘After killing the cat, the defendant then went on, while still on the livestream, to dissect it.
‘This is not simply about killing a defenceless animal. Its relevance to this trial is the defendant’s general manner.
‘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’ in regards to the killing with others and ‘her desire to open up a person like her “little cat friend”’, the courtroom heard.
‘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.
The courtroom heard Blake had watched a Netflix documentary referred to as Don’t F*** with Cats by which a person kills kittens earlier than filming the homicide of a human – whereas the identical New Order tune performed within the background.
Describing the occasions main as much as the alleged homicide, Ms Morgan mentioned Mr Carreno had grow to be ‘separated from friends and perhaps lost and vulnerable’.
She mentioned he ‘had the great misfortune of being approached by this defendant in the early hours on July 25, 2021’ whereas she was ‘out on the streets of Oxford that night looking for a victim’.
Ms Morgan went on: ‘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.’
The courtroom heard his physique was discovered within the water the next day and his reason behind demise was given as ‘immersion with alcohol intoxication’.
Ms Morgan mentioned compression of the neck might trigger the kind of accidents he suffered.
She famous that as his physique had been within the water for 36 hours, the exterior accidents would have been impacted by this.
‘This is not a case where strangulation caused Mr Carreno’s demise,’ she added. ‘He didn’t die on the riverbank as a result of the defendant strangled him to demise.
‘He was alive to a degree when he went into the water. That sort of compression though can result in loss of consciousness so that is something which could have well happened before Mr Carreno then went into the water.’
Ms Morgan defined that in the course of the police investigation detectives have constructed up an image of Blake’s background.
‘The prosecution alleges that this defendant had an extreme interest in death and in harm,’ she instructed 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.’
Jurors have been proven movies of Blake 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 courtroom 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.’
Blake, of Oxford, denies homicide.
The trial continues at this time.
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