A sick killer who livestreamed herself putting a cat in a blender before she murdered a random man because her American online girlfriend “said it’d be hot” was sentenced to at least 24 years in a UK prison on Monday.
Scarlet Blake, 26, who identifies as transgender, was slapped with the hefty sentence after she was found guilty last week in the 2021 slaying of 30-year-old Jorge Martin Carreno and the savage torture of the cat.
Blake — who had an “obsession with harm and death” — was inspired to carry out the sadistic murders after watching the Netflix documentary “Don’t F–k With Cats,” Judge Martin Chamberlain told the Oxford Crown Court during the sentencing.
In the grotesque livestream video, Blake had filmed herself skinning and dissecting her neighbor’s cat while it was still alive — before dumping its dead body in a blender.
The footage had the New Order song “True Faith” playing in the background as an homage to the Netflix documentary, the court heard.
Then, months later, Blake stalked the streets of Oxford in search of a human victim.
Blake had lured Carreno, a Spanish national who worked at a nearby BMW factory, to a secluded river after he got separated from his friends during a night out, the court heard.
She then battered him over the head with a vodka bottle, strangled him and pushed his body into the river.
Blake had carried out the horrific crimes as a way to impress her US-based online girlfriend, Ashlynn Bell, her trial heard.
“You decided to kill someone because you believed Ashlynn Bell would find it sexually exciting, as in fact she did. As you later said to another partner, you killed ‘because my lover said it’d be hot,'” the judge noted in his sentencing remarks.
“There was, therefore, a clear sexual motivation for the killing.”
The judge added: “I am sure you did derive pleasure from killing Jorge, as you had from killing the cat.”
During her trial, Blake had tried to claim the Netflix documentary — in which a man kills kittens before filming himself murder a person — had no sway on her.
“You told the court it had nothing to do with the documentary, I am sure that this was untrue and the documentary played a part in your own mind in the link between killing a cat and killing a person,” the judge said.
In addition to the minimum 24-year jail sentence for Carreno’s murder, Blake was handed two concurrent sentences of four months and two months for unnecessary suffering to an animal and criminal damage.
