Cat killer sentenced to life for Oxford murder as part of sexual fantasy

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A cat killer obsessed with violence and death has been jailed for life with a minimum of 24 years after being convicted of murdering a man she deliberately targeted as part of a sexual fantasy. Scarlet Blake, 26, targeted Jorge Martin Carreno, 30, one of a triplet, as he walked home from a night out in Oxford in July 2021. Blake, who is a transgender woman, 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. Sentencing Blake on...