Trans killer who murdered random BMW engineer in warped Don’t F**k With Cats-style killing is sent to male jail – as her own lawyer says she’s so dangerous ‘she’ll NEVER get parole’
A transgender cat killer will serve at least 24 years in a male jail for murdering a BMW engineer she randomly targeted as part of a warped sexual fantasy inspired by a Netflix documentary.
Scarlet Blake’s own defence lawyer admitted his client was so dangerous no parole board would ever feel it was safe to release her back into society.
The 26-year-old smashed a vodka bottle over Jorge Martin Carreno’s head, strangled him then pushed the Spaniard into Oxford’s River Cherwell, where he drowned.
Four months earlier, Blake had livestreamed herself killing a neighbour’s cat and placing its body in a blender.
Mr Carreno’s brother Gerardo told Oxford Crown Court his sibling’s life had been stolen by the twisted killer, adding: ‘It’s been sleepless nights and days. Going through the pain of losing a son and a brother is a challenge no family should face.’
His mother, Carmen, said the loss of her beloved son would leave ‘an open wound’ in the family.
A mugshot issued by Thames Valley Police of Scarlet Blake who was found guilty of murder
Scarlet Blake pictured in Intrusion nightclub in Oxford
BMW worker Mr Carreno (pictured) had been on a night out when he was approached by Blake
And Mr Carreno’s ex-girlfriend, Irene Hidalgo, described him as a pure soul who only had kind words and a wide smile for everyone.
Blake, whose parents are respected doctors, targeted the 30-year-old BMW worker as he walked home from a night out in Oxford on July 24, 2021 – the first Saturday night after Covid restrictions were eased.
She had been prowling the city’s streets wearing a military-style hooded jacket, and carrying a rucksack containing a ‘murder kit’ complete with a garrotte and leopard print dressing gown cord.
Her defence barrister Richard Sutton KC offered no mitigation on behalf of his client, admitting she would probably never be freed from prison.
He said: ‘One has to look at Ms Blake’s background and decide that she is in one sense a dangerous person. It is clear that no parole board will feel she is safe to go back into society.’
Months before the murder, Blake filmed herself dicing up a family cat after telling it: ‘I can’t wait to put you through the blender.’
In the horrific video, the New Order song True Faith can be heard. The court was told this was a homage to Netflix documentary Don’t F*** With Cats, about a man who kills kittens before filming the murder of a human victim.
She then boasted about killing the pet and spoke of her desire to ‘open up a person’.
A still image from a video issued by police of Scarlet Blake holding a cat head after killing it
Blake stalked and killed 30-year-old Jorge Martin Carreno (pictured) in July 2021
Scarlet Blake, pictured in August last year, was convicted at Oxford Crown Court
Blake got away with Mr Carreno’s murder for two years before her ex-partner Ashlynn Bell tipped off police.
She was convicted last week after a three-week trial. The judge also imposed concurrent two and four-month sentences relating to the killing of the cat.
A source confirmed Blake, who was given puberty blockers when she was 17 and started to received hormone treatment when she was 18, would serve her sentence in a male prison.
Jailing Blake, Mr Justice Chamberlain said he was sure the defendant had intended to kill Mr Carreno although he could not be sure of an exact method used.
He said: ‘It is not possible to say exactly how, whether you hit him on the back of his head with a vodka bottle or something else you had in your backpack, then strangled him by applying pressure to the blood vessels just beneath his jaw using your hands or ligature, then putting in the river where he drowned.
‘You may have held him down in the water while strangling him. Either way, you intended to kill him, and you did.
‘The 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 is the culmination of a plan you’ve been considering and formulating for months before, and after July 25 as you showed an obsession with harm and death.’
Sick picture captures moment trans killer puts cat in a blender before carrying out twisted murder which bares harrowing similarities to Luka Magnotta’s real-life crime
A sick picture captures transgender killer Scarlet Blake relishing the moment she puts a cat in a blender before carrying out a twisted murder in a chilling echo of a Netflix true crime documentary.
Blake, 26, live-streamed the killing and dissection of a cat four months before she targeted Jorge Martin Carreno, 30, as he walked home from a night out in Oxford in July 2021.
She had admitted dissecting the animal, removing the fur and skin and placing it in a blender but blames her former partner Ashlynn Bell.
The court previously heard Blake had an ‘extreme interest in death and in harm’ and killed the family pet after watching a Netflix documentary called Don’t F*** With Cats: Hunting An Internet Killer.
In the programme a man, Luka Magnotta, kills kittens before filming a murder.
Prosecutors had alleged the cat killing was relevant to the murder trial as it shows Blake has a ‘disturbing interest in what it would be like to harm a living creature’.
Blake deliberately set out to kill after previously revelling in the slaughter and dissection of a neighbour’s cat.
While her death obsessed partner Bell watched from her home in the US, Blake live streamed cutting up the cat while it was still alive.
A vet determined it would have been in extreme pain until its heart was ripped out.
Police would later find the heart in a trinket box that Blake kept as a souvenir.
It was only after Blake’s arrest in August 2023 they discovered the cat killing video and her fetish for strangulation and they launched Operation Ingmar.
