The 26-year-old Scarlet Blake was sentenced this Monday to life imprisonment by an Oxford court (southeast of England) for the murder in 2021 in that English city of the Canary Islander Jorge Martín Carreño, whom she beat and threw into the river in a crime with sexual motivation.
Blake will have to serve at least 24 years before being considered for a sentence reduction, Judge Martin Chamberlain said in announcing his ruling. In addition to the murder, she admitted a crime of damage for having killed a cat months before in an action that she broadcast live on the Internet.
When detailing his ruling, the magistrate 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 that of his ex-girlfriend. Ashlynn Bell. “He decided to kill someone because he believed Ashlynn Bell would find it sexually arousing, which she did,” he said. “There was, therefore, a clear sexual motivation for the murder. You also believed that you would derive pleasure, sexual or otherwise, from the experience of killing a person,” the judge continued. “I’m sure he enjoyed killing Jorge, just as he enjoyed killing the cat,” Chamberlain added.
The judge 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.
The judge found 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.” He then “strangled him by applying pressure to the blood vessels just below his jaw with his hands or a ligature, and then threw him into the river (Cherwell) where he drowned,” he added.
The judge said that during the trial Blake tried to falsely implicate Bell in the massacre and that his explanations about his childhood difficulties or alleged multiple personality sought to “rationalize what happened.”
Jorge Martín 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 place for naked swimming 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, a tributary of the Thames. The Prosecutor’s Office explained that the girl, who was 23 years old at the time, had “an extreme interest in death” and she obtained sexual gratification from violence and the killing of cats, which she recorded on videos.
