Mick Hartley

Here we go again. It's the case of Scarlet Black, mentioned here on Tuesday – and the verdict's in. The Times headline – Woman who live-streamed cat killing found guilty of murdering man.

A woman who live-streamed herself killing a cat smiled in court after being found guilty of murdering a man four months later as he walked home from a night out in Oxford.

Scarlet Blake, 26, singled out Jorge Martin Carreno, 30, in July 2021 and led him to a secluded riverbank where she hit him on the back of the head with a vodka bottle, throttled him and then pushed him into the River Cherwell, where he drowned.

Blake, wearing a dark suit, showed no emotion as the guilty verdict was delivered at Oxford crown court.

Prosecutors said Blake killed Carreno, who worked at the BMW Mini plant in the city, because she had a “fixation with violence and with knowing what it would be like to kill someone”.

The video of the cat-killing four months before the murder showed Blake saying: “Here we go my little friend. Oh boy, you smell like shit. I can’t wait to put [you] through the blender.”…

The prosecution said Blake had an “extreme interest in death and in harm” and derived sexual gratification from violence and killing.

Not once in the article – not once – is it mentioned that Blake is trans. That is, Blake is a man. This is not a woman's crime. That's quite some level of dishonest reporting. And, of course "Comments for this article have been turned off", because they know perfectly well how disgraceful this reporting is and how people will respond. But still they do it…

Same for the Guardian.

The BBC is not much better, talking always of the "woman" and using female pronouns throughout, but at least they mention that he's trans.

The fact that he's a man, that he's trans, is central to the story. We're being lied to…

Update: the Times article has been amended, and now at least does slip in a mention that Blake is transgender.