A transgender woman has been found guilty of murdering a man four months after live streaming herself putting a cat in a blender.
Scarlet Blake replicated Netflix documentary, Don't F*** With Cats, where killer Luka Magnotta murders kittens before filming a murder.
A live stream showed Blake dissecting a cat by removing the fur and skin before putting it in a blender to New Order's 1987 hit True Faith - the same song which plays in the Netflix programme.
Prosecutors say during the early hours of July 25, 2021, the 25-year-old found Jorge Martin Carreno while scouring the streets of Oxford looking for someone to kill.
A transgender woman has been found guilty of murdering a man four months after live streaming herself putting a cat in a blender
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The body of the Spanish national was found in the River Cherwell at Parson's Pleasure around 24 hours later.
The BMW factory worker had been on a night out with colleagues and was walking home alone.
It wasn't until two years later that a murder investigation was opened when Blake's former partner Ashlynn Bell reported that Blake had confessed to killing Carreno using a homemade garrote.
She denied murdering Carreno by inflicting blows to his head before trying to strangle him and then putting him in the river where he drowned but pleaded guilty to a charge of criminal damage over killing the cat.
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A live stream showed Blake dissecting a cat by removing the fur and skin before putting it in a blender
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Oxford Crown Court heard that Blake - who was born in China and moved to the UK aged nine - captured a cat in a crate by enticing it with food.
In the video, she says: "Here we go my little friend. Oh boy, you smell like s***. I can't wait to put through the blender."
Prosecutors said it showed she had a "disturbing interest in what it would be like to harm a living creature".
Alison Morgan KC showed jurors videos of Blake and a partner engaging in consensual strangulation with ligatures and said: "It was an interest that went beyond mere fantasy".
Jorge Martin Carreno was murdered on July 25, 2021
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"She described herself to others as being someone who derived sexual gratification from the thought of violence and the thought of death."
CCTV footage also showed Blake walking in a facemask with a combat-style jacket with hood over her head, while carrying a rucksack as Carreno tried to find his way home.
Morgan added: "He died because he encountered the defendant on that night.
"He died because he met a person who had a fixation with violence and with knowing what it would feel like to kill someone."
Blake claims Carreno was still alive when she left him at the riverbank and she had made up details of killing him to please her ex-partner after seeing his death in the news.
