Woman accused of murder watched Netlix documentary before killing cat, court hears

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A girl live-streamed the sadistic killing of a cat 4 months earlier than she brutally murdered a person, a courtroom has heard.

Scarlet Blake, 25, is accused of focusing on Jorge Martin Carreno, 30, as he walked dwelling 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 courtroom additionally heard Blake had watched a Netflix documentary known as Don’t F*** with Cats by which a person kills kittens earlier than filming the homicide of a human .

Oxford Crown Courtroom heard it took two years for the occasions of that evening to be “correctly 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 understanding what it might be wish to kill somebody”.

Alison Morgan KC, prosecuting, informed the jury: “He died as a result of he encountered the defendant on that evening.

“He died as a result of he met an individual who had a fixation with violence and with understanding what it might really feel wish to kill somebody.

“At a time when Mr Carreno turned separated from associates and maybe misplaced and susceptible, Mr Carreno had the good 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 evening 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 defined that in the course of the police investigation detectives have 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 informed 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.

“Movies of her with considered one of her companions partaking in acts of strangulation, consensually, in a sexualised context.

“She spoke to others about what it might be wish 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.”

The prosecutor went on to elucidate how months earlier than the alleged homicide, Blake had livestreamed the killing and dissection of a cat.

The courtroom heard Blake used meals and a crate to seize the cat and take it to her dwelling 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 needed to do to this cat, and demonstrated a fixation with what it might really feel wish to trigger hurt to others,” Ms Morgan stated.

“They reveal her grotesque pleasure in inflicting hurt to a cat.”

Within the video, by which the New Order tune True Religion performs within the background, Blake tells the cat: “Right here we go my little buddy. Oh boy, you odor like shit. I can’t wait to place via the blender.”

The identical New Order tune performed within the background within the video in the course of the Netflix documentary known as Don’t F*** with Cats.

Trailer for Don’t F*** with Cats:

The prosecutor informed the courtroom: “After killing the cat, the defendant then went on, whereas nonetheless on the livestream, to dissect it.

“This course of included inserted a scalpel blade and deal with into the cat’s eyes. She then eliminated its fur and pores and skin, after which positioned the physique of the cat right into a blender.

“This isn’t merely about killing a defenceless animal. Its relevance to this trial is the defendant’s total manner.

“The footage exhibits her to be somebody who had a disturbing curiosity in what it might be wish to hurt a dwelling creature. What it might really feel wish to trigger struggling earlier than taking a life away.”

Blake “boasted” in regards to the killing with others and “her need to open up an individual like her ‘little cat buddy’”.

“It’s clear that in her personal thoughts she made a connection between what it felt wish to hurt this cat and what it might really feel wish to hurt an individual,” Ms Morgan stated.

Jurors have been proven movies of the defendant and her accomplice partaking in consensual strangulation with ligatures.

One exhibits her accomplice sat on a mattress pulling the twine 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 exhibits Blake pulling a white twine tight round accomplice’s neck from behind together with her once more collapsing then recovering.

Ms Morgan stated: “There’s a fascination with ligatures for sexual gratification.

“No matter it’s in regards to the fascination with the dressing robe, it should have been in her head and led her to take a selfie simply an hour or so with that dressing robe earlier than she discovered Mr Carreno.”

The courtroom additionally heard Blake had allegedly mentioned together with her accomplice Mr Carreno’s homicide.

Referring to being within the firm of a person, Blake messaged her, saying: “Final time I discovered somebody this drunk they died lol.”

The defendant, of Crotch Crescent, Oxford denies homicide.

The trial was adjourned till Thursday.