Cat-killer facing life for sadistic murder inspired by Netflix documentary

A cat-killer obsessed with violence and death is facing life imprisonment after being convicted of murdering a man she deliberately targeted as part of a warped sexual fantasy inspired by a Netflix documentary.

Scarlet Blake, 26, singled out Jorge Martin Carreno, 30, as he walked home from a night out in Oxford in July 2021, before brutally attacking him.

She led him to a secluded riverbank, where he was hit on the back of the head with a vodka bottle, strangled and then pushed into the River Cherwell where he drowned.

Prosecutors said Blake, who is transgender, killed Mr