A British transgender impersonator of murderer Luka Rocco Magnotta, who allegedly attacked her neighbors' cats live before killing a 30-year-old from Oxford in the United Kingdom, was sentenced to life in prison on Monday.
“Her decision to kill the victim was not in response to anything he said or did. It wasn't a momentary mistake, it wasn't a decision made in anger […] “It was the culmination of a plan that you had considered and formulated for months,” Judge Martin Chamberlain emphasized as he handed down his verdict on Monday, The Independent reported.
Murderer Scarlet Blake, 26, was sent to prison after being sentenced to life in prison with no chance of release for 24 years for the murder of Spaniard Jorge Martin Carreno, 30, in Oxford in July 2021.
Cat killer found guilty of murder of Jorge Martin Carreno.
Scarlet Blake was found guilty of the murder of Jorge Martin Carreno in Oxford.
After a three-week trial at Oxford Crown Court, 25-year-old Blake, of Crotch Crescent, Oxford, was found guilty by a unanimous jury… pic.twitter.com/VFK2G4Voav
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According to surveillance camera footage shared by Thames Valley Police, the woman lured her victim to a remote area near a river before drowning him and bragging about it to his girlfriend, who lives in the United States. -United States.
The latter would have offered the police the final piece of the puzzle about the thirty-year-old's death by contacting him in April 2023.
The investigation would then have revealed that Scarlet Blake had been sharing “a fixation with violence and the knowledge of what it would be like to kill someone” for several months.
The killer notably killed a neighborhood cat live on the internet as a tribute to murderer Luka Rocco Magnotta, who cut up cats on the internet before turning his knife on Jun Lin, a Chinese student living in Montreal.
She reportedly kept the cat's severed head as a souvenir and visited the scene of Jorge Martin Carreno's murder twice to take photos of the crime scene.
The transgender woman was found guilty by a jury after just six hours of deliberation before receiving her sentence this week.
“There are several aspects of this case that are truly disturbing to watch, hear and process. This defendant showed calculated cruelty. “The murder was committed with complete disregard and it is clear that only a life sentence is appropriate,” said Detective Superintendent Jon Capps, senior investigating officer at Thames Police’s Major Crime Unit. Valley, on Facebook on Monday.