Cat-killing monster Scarlet Blake jailed for life after Netflix documentary inspired her to murder stranger

It was a sick sexual fantasy that led to mutilating a cat in a blender before luring a stranger to his death because her girlfriend thought “it would be hot”.

And it was all inspired by the Netflix documentary Don’t F**k With Cats: Hunting An Internet Killer.

Scarlet Blake is a transgender woman who sometimes adopted the persona of a cat — and her messed-up mind led her to live-stream herself dissecting a cat before placing it in a blender.

It was a scene scarily similar to one in the three-part Nextflix show, which tells the story of one of Canada’s worst murderers Luka Magnotta who went from killing kittens to killing a Chinese student, decapitating him and mailing his body parts across Montreal.

In Blake’s horrific cat-killing video, which has the same New Order song True Faith playing as in the Netflix doco, she can be heard saying: “Here we go my little friend. Oh boy, you smell like shit. I can’t wait to put you through the blender.”

Then, at the end of the video, the 26-year-old asks: “Well I wonder where I learn to do this to a person?”

It was the start of a sinister plot to kill a human, egged on by internet girlfriend and Nazi memorabilia fan Ashlynn Bell.

So on a night in Oxford in England on July 25, 2021, Blake stalked the streets and stumbled on Jorge Martin Carreno, who was “lost and vulnerable” while walking home after drinking with colleagues.

The pair walked for sometime before Blake attacked Mr Carreno, hitting him over the with a vodka bottle or homemade garrote, and leaving his body to rot by the River Cherwell.

In circumstances again eerily similar to the Netflix doco, Blake told Bell, who lives in the US, how she planned to decapitate the 30-year-old.

She also told ex-fiancee Evie Brockman: “I killed people because my lover thought it would be hot.”

Blake had described herself to others as being someone who derived sexual gratification from the thought of violence and the thought of death.

It took police two years to “properly understand” how the grisly murder came about.

On Monday, Blake was made to pay for her heinous crime, being jailed for life with a minimum term of 24 years.

Oxford Crown Court Justice Martin Chamberlain told the killer: ““Most likely you hit him (Mr Carreno) on the back of the head with a vodka bottle, or something else you brought with you.

“You then strangled him with a ligature or another item. You may have held him down in the water. Either way you intended to kill him and you did kill him.

“Your decision to kill Jorge was not a reaction to something he had said and done, it was not a momentary mistake. It was not a decision made in anger or because your emotions overcame you.

“It was a plan you had been considering for months.”

Incredibly, Blake told the court that she never wanted to kill a living creature and had been pressured by her internet girlfriend Bell.

But Justice Chamberlain said Blake’s choice to commit murder was entirely hers.

“You adopted the persona of a cat,” he said in sentencing.

“You talked about the difficulties to have had of transitioning since childhood to live as a woman and your troubled relationship with your parents.

“All of this was part of an elaborate attempt to rationalise what you have done and shift responsibility to others.

“It is not the fault of a society that didn’t accept you, it was not the fault of your parents ... the decision to kill was entirely yours.”

Justice Chamberlain also noted that Blake derived great pleasure from mutilating the cat.

“The thing you enjoyed most was seeing the animal gasping and panicking before it died,” he told her.

“You told the jury you did all this to please Ashlynn Bell and derived no pleasure from it yourself.

“But the clips we saw of you laughing and smiling with the cats severed head in the background leave no doubt that you derived pleasure.”