A girl with “an excessive curiosity in loss of life and in hurt” live-streamed the killing of a cat 4 months earlier than murdering a person, a court docket has heard.
Scarlet Blake, 25, is accused of killing 30-year-old Jorge Martin Carreno after she took to the streets in Oxford to search for a sufferer as he walked home from an evening out in July 2021.
He was discovered within the River Cherwell, with what seemed like a blow to the again of his head.
Oxford Crown Court heard it took two years to work out that Mr Carreno didn’t die from an accident or suicide, however by the hands of the defendant.
“He died as a result of he encountered the defendant on that night time,” Alison Morgan KC, prosecuting, instructed the jury.
“He died as a result of he met a person who had a fixation with violence and with understanding what it could really feel prefer to kill somebody.”
The prosecutor went on to clarify how months earlier than the alleged homicide, Blake had livestreamed the killing and dissection of a cat.
Blake, of Crotch Crescent in Oxford, used meals and a crate to seize the cat and take it to her home the place she killed the animal, the court docket heard.
“The defendant’s actions in direction of the cat present planning, specifically the buying of apparatus essential to do what she wished to do to this cat, and demonstrated a fixation with what it could really feel prefer to trigger hurt to others,” Ms Morgan mentioned.
In the video, wherein the New Order music True Faith performs within the background, Blake tells the cat: “Here we go my little good friend. Oh boy, you scent like s***. I can not wait to place by the blender.”
The dissection included a “scalpel blade and deal with into the cat’s eyes”, the court docket heard, earlier than Blake eliminated its fur and pores and skin and placed the physique right into a blender.
“This will not be merely about killing a defenceless animal. Its relevance to this trial is the defendant’s general manner,” Ms Morgan added.
“The footage reveals her to be somebody who had a disturbing curiosity in what it could be prefer to hurt a residing creature. What it could really feel prefer to trigger struggling earlier than taking a life away.”
Blake “boasted” in regards to the killing with others and “her want to open up a person like her ‘little cat good friend'”.
The court docket heard Blake had watched a Netflix documentary known as Don’t F*** With Cats wherein a person kills kittens earlier than filming the homicide of a human – with the identical New Order music taking part in within the background.
On Mr Carreno, the prosecutor mentioned “he grew to become separated from buddies and maybe misplaced and vulnerable”.
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“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 mentioned.
The prosecutor mentioned that in the course of the police investigation detectives constructed up an image of her background.
“The prosecution alleges that this defendant had an excessive curiosity in loss of life and in hurt,” she instructed the jury.
“It was an curiosity that went past mere fantasy. She described herself to others as being somebody who derived sexual gratification from the considered violence and the considered loss of life.
“Videos of her with one among her companions partaking in acts of strangulation, consensually, in a sexualised context.
“She spoke to others about what it could be prefer to kill somebody.
“She checked out imagery and saved it on her gadgets that confirmed an curiosity in ligatures being utilized across the neck. She talked about harming herself.”
Blake denies homicide and the trial was adjourned till Thursday.
