The 26-year-old Scarlet Blake has been sentenced this Monday to life imprisonment by a court in Oxford, southeast of England, for the murder in 2021 in that English city of the Spanish Jorge Martín Carreño. The aggressor hit him and threw him into the river in a sexually motivated crime. Blake will have to serve at least 24 years before being considered for a reduced sentence, Judge Martin Chamberlain said in announcing his ruling.. In addition to the murder, the magistrate has admitted a crime of damage for having killed a cat months before in an action that he broadcast live on the internet.
In detailing his ruling, the judge pointed out that the murder of the 30-year-old young man from the Canary Islands, found dead on July 26, was “the culmination of a plan that he weighed and formulated for months,” and that he pursued personal delight and his ex-girlfriend Ashlynn Bell. “She decided to kill someone because she thought she would find it sexually exciting, which she did,” he said.
“I'm sure he enjoyed killing Jorge, just as he enjoyed killing the cat,” Chamberlain added.. “There was, therefore, a clear sexual motivation for the murder. “You also believed that you would derive pleasure, sexual or not, from the experience of killing a person,” the judge continued.. Also, he has maintained that “the decision to kill Jorge was not a reaction to something he said or did, it was not a momentary mistake, it was not a decision made out of anger or because his emotions got the better of him,” but rather something studied.
Furthermore, the judge has noted that it is not possible to establish exactly how Blake killed him, “whether he hit him in the back of the head with a bottle of vodka or something else he had in his backpack.”. After that, “she strangled him by applying pressure to the blood vessels just below the jaw with her hands or a ligature, and then threw him into the river where he drowned,” he added, later alleging that during the trial the murderer had tried to implicate him in the killing of Bell.
The facts
Carreño, an electrical engineer who worked at a BMW factory in the area, was brutally attacked by Blake when he returned from going out with friends. The murderer found him in Oxford's Radcliffe Square, from where they walked together to Parsons Pleasure, a nude swimming spot reserved for men and where his body was found.
According to the prosecution, Blake knocked the young man unconscious after hitting him in the back of the head with a vodka bottle, strangled him and pushed him into the River Cherwell, one of the tributaries of the Thames. The Prosecutor's Office explained that the girl had “an extreme interest in death” and obtained sexual gratification from violence and the killing of cats, which she recorded on videos.