JK Rowling hits out at cat killer being classed as a girl

JK Rowling has hit out at cat killer Scarlet Blake, who was given a life sentence for the homicide of Jorge Martin Carreno yesterday, being classed as a girl.

The 26-year-old, who will serve not less than 24 years in a male jail, focused the 30-year-old BMW employee as he walked house from an evening out in Oxford on July 24, 2021, after being impressed by the Netflix documentary Don’t F*** With Cats.

Award-winning journalist Louise Tickle, who was written for The Guardian for over 20 years, has boycotted the newspaper after it initially failed to inform its readers that Blake was transgender in an article overlaying the case.

Now, Harry Potter creator J.Okay. Rowling — who has been vocal about her views on transgender points — has hit again at Sky News for equally referring to Blake as ‘a girl’ in an article headline.

Sharing the video on ‘X’, previously referred to as Twitter, the creator used the caption: ‘I’m sick of this s***. This shouldn’t be a girl. These are #NotOurCrimes.’

The headline by Sky News learn: ‘BREAKING: A girl who filmed herself killing a cat earlier than placing the animal in a blender has been jailed for all times for murdering a person 4 months later.’

The group notes choice, the place readers can add context to a publish, stated: ‘Scarlet Blake is an grownup male who identifies as a transgender girl. The omission of this important element within the reporting provides the misunderstanding that this was a criminal offense dedicated by a girl.’

In a letter to the editor of The Guardian, Ms Tickle stated she wouldn’t be contributing to the newspaper till it may ‘display’ what ‘constitutes a reality’ and ‘stops deceiving its readers’.

She defined that upon studying the article about Blake final week, she was left unaware that Blake was a ‘male killer’ as a result of the phrase ‘transgender’ was not included within the piece. 

The Guardian included a word on its article to state: ‘This article was up to date on 23 February 2024 so as to add additional particulars and biographical info, together with reference to Scarlet Blake’s transgender identification, which weren’t included within the company copy on which our preliminary model relied.’

Some folks on social media agreed with J.Okay. Rowling’s remark. One consumer stated: ‘Words matter. Especially ones as elementary as ‘girl.” 

Another wrote: ‘How can anybody belief the press to be telling the reality when whopping nice lies like this attending to be a daily prevalence?’

But others criticised JK Rowling for being transphobic: ‘This girl put a cat in a blender and your first response is to be transphobic, Joanne babes have a time off.’

Blake live-streamed the killing and dissection of a cat 4 months earlier than she focused Jorge Martin Carrenoas he walked house from an evening out in Oxford in July 2021. 

She admitted dissecting the animal, eradicating the fur and pores and skin and putting it in a blender however blames her former companion Ashlynn Bell.

Police imagine Blake would have gotten away with the sadistic homicide had she not later had a bitter falling out with Bell – who then contacted detectives at Thames Valley Police to disclose that she knew of a ‘homicide confession’ from Blake.

It was solely then – virtually two years after Jorge’s demise – that police lastly discovered of  how she had warmed up for her assault on him by making a four-hour video of herself slaughtering a neighbour’s cat.

Blake had an ‘excessive curiosity in demise and in hurt’ and killed the household pet after watching a Netflix documentary referred to as Don’t F*** With Cats: Hunting An Internet Killer, Oxford Crown Court heard.

For virtually two years the UK investigation into Carreno’s demise in a park in July 2021 had stalled – with no witnesses coming ahead with any related info.

All police needed to go on was the shadowy determine seen strolling alongside Carreno as they headed in direction of a magnificence spot referred to as Parson’s Pleasure within the early hours of the morning shortly earlier than he was discovered lifeless.

It was solely when ‘out of the blue’ Bell contacted UK police to disclose Blake had confessed to the homicide – and even despatched her the fight jacket she had worn on the evening of the killing – that the investigation took off.

Detectives flew to Colorado to take Bell’s assertion – and her bombshell proof shortly led police to grasp Blake was that shadowy determine seen with Jorge.

This prompted the arrest of Blake on the house she shared together with her medical researcher mom in a quiet cul-de-sac in Marston, Oxford.

Prosecutors stated Blake had intentionally got down to kill after beforehand revelling within the slaughter and dissection of a neighbour’s cat.

While her companion Bell watched from her house within the US, Blake dwell streamed reducing up the cat whereas it was nonetheless alive.

A vet decided it will have been in excessive ache till its coronary heart was ripped out.

Police would later discover the guts in a trinket field that Blake stored as a memento.

The world hit documentary collection, ‘Don’t F*** with Cats, follows the crimes of Luka Magnotta – who began out by torturing and killing animals earlier than graduating to a human sufferer.

Prosecutors informed Oxford Crown Court Blake ‘copied’ the actions of Magnotta who revealed a collection of movies suffocating kittens on the web earlier than happening to kill a pc technician.

The jury have been informed that, like Magnotta, Blake began with an animal sufferer, some 4 months earlier than strangling and pushing Mr Carreno right into a river.