'Cat killer' sentenced to life for murdering man for 'sexual pleasure'

A transgender woman, who has an 'obsession with harm and death', has been issued a life sentence of minimum 24 years in Oxford city of England for killing a man in 2021. The 26-year-old Scarlet Blake murdered 30-year-old Jorge Martin Carreno as a sexual fantasy, Oxford crown court said.

Blake led Carreno to a secluded riverbank and hit him on the back of the head with a vodka bottle. She then strangled him and pushed him into the river. He drowned and died.

Sentencing Blake on February 26, Justice Chamberlain said, “Your decision to kill Jorge was not a reaction to something he had said or done. It was not a momentary mistake. It was not a decision made in anger, or because your emotions overcame you. It was the culmination of a plan you had been considering and formulating for months.”

The judge also added, "There was no evidence of sexual activity at the crime scene, but there was ample evidence derived sexual gratification from strangulation”.

“There was therefore a clear sexual motivation for the killing. You also believe that you would derive pleasure, whether sexual or not, from the experience of killing a person. I am sure that you did derive pleasure from killing Jorge as you had from killing the cat,” he added.

Prosecutors said Blake killed the man because she had a fantasy with violence and she wanted to know how it feels to kill someone.

During the hearing, Blake claimed of having a fragmented personality due to which she sometimes becomes a cat. She even made cat sounds in front of the jury to prove her claim.

The murder happened four months after Blake livestreamed the gruesome killing of a cat. On the livestream, she killed the cat and chopped it into pieces and then put the pieces into a blender. She was also heard saying, “Well, one day, I want to learn how to do this to a person.”