Scarlet Blake murdered Jorge Martin Carreno in July 2021 (Picture: sWNS/Hyde News)
A woman with an ‘extreme interest in death’ has been found guilty of murdering a man as he walked home from a night out.
Scarlet Blake, 26, has been found guilty at Oxford Crown Court of the murder of Jorge Martin Carreno, 30, in July 2021.
His body was found in the River Cherwell at Parsons Pleasure having suffered what appeared to be a blow to the back of his head before drowning.
Alison Morgan KC, prosecuting, told them Mr Carreno died because he crossed paths with Blake that night, adding: ‘He died because he met a person who had a fixation with violence and with knowing what it would feel like to kill someone.’
Months before the alleged murder, Blake had livestreamed the killing and dissection of a cat.
Blake was said to have used food and a crate to capture the cat and take it to her home where she killed the animal.
‘The defendant’s actions towards the cat show planning, in particular the purchasing of equipment necessary to do what she wanted to do to this cat, and demonstrated a fixation with what it would feel like to cause harm to others,’ Ms Morgan said.
Describing the events leading up to the alleged murder, Ms Morgan said Mr Carreno had become ‘separated from friends and perhaps lost and vulnerable’.
She said he ‘had the great misfortune of being approached by this defendant in the early hours on July 25, 2021’ while she was ‘out on the streets of Oxford that night looking for a victim’.
Spanish citizen Jorge Javier Martin Carreno (pictured) went missing after a night out with friends on July 25, 2021 (Picture: Hyde News)
Ms Morgan went on: ‘She targeted him and took him to Parsons Pleasure, where she killed him, leaving his body to be discovered by others over 24 hours later.’
The court heard his body was found in the water the following day and his cause of death was given as ‘immersion with alcohol intoxication’.
Ms Morgan said compression of the neck could cause the type of injuries he suffered.
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