Broadcasters are so cowed by trans activists they dare not tell the truth: the Oxford killer is NOT a woman

We don’t have many murders in oxford, my home town. Inspector Morse is a diverting fantasy that is far from reality.

So I was intrigued to read a week or so ago about the case of Scarlet Blake, described as a ‘woman’. She was on trial at oxford Crown Court for the murder of Jorge Martin Carreno, a 30-year-old Spanish man, in July 2021.

It was reported that Blake, now 26, had picked up Carreno in the early hours in the centre of oxford, close to the University Church and the Radcliffe Camera library. It is a beautiful part of the ancient city, seemingly far from the modern world.

Blake and Carreno walked about a mile to Parson’s Pleasure in the University Parks. Here, from the 19th century until 1991, male dons were permitted to bathe in the nude in the River Cherwell. It is an enchanting and peaceful place, which no one would associate with murder.

Shocking

Blake struck Carreno over the back of the head with a vodka bottle and choked him, before pushing him into the river, where he drowned. When I read this account on the BBC oxford website, I was taken aback.

For one thing, it is much more common for men to kill women than the other way around. For another, it was surprising that a woman should have had the strength to dispatch a grown man as described.

now we know that the murderer isn’t a woman. Scarlet Blake is transgender, having ‘transitioned’ aged 12, and been given puberty blockers when 17 and hormone treatment from the age of 18, after a referral to the tavistock NHS gender clinic. I should mention that Blake, the offspring of two doctors, was born in China and came to england as a nine-year-old.

despite the transitioning, the authorities evidently believe that Blake is essentially male. the killer has been kept in a Category A men’s jail since arrest, and will serve a minimum sentence of at least 24 years (which many will think rather light in the circumstances) in a men’s prison.

this is a shocking story in several ways. It is shocking because of the location where the murder took place. People are occasionally assaulted in the Cowley Road, a rougher part of oxford. But except perhaps in an episode of Inspector Morse, a savage murder and Parson’s Pleasure don’t fit together.

It’s also shocking because of what Blake did. I don’t only mean the killing, which the trial judge Martin Chamberlain was explicit had a ‘clear sexual motivation’.

Four months beforehand, Blake live- streamed a video strangling, skinning and dissecting a cat before dumping its body in a blender. the inspiration for this demonic act was a netflix documentary, don’t F*** With Cats, about a man who kills a cat and a student.

the recipient of the depraved video was Blake’s girlfriend, Ashlynn Bell, nearly 5,000 miles away in America. Bell is a transgender escort with a passion for weapons who advertises herself on a website for trans prostitutes in texas, where she charges $100 an hour for her services. She finally informed British police about the murder.

We mustn’t forget the diabolic role played by the internet, or the malign influence of a popular streaming service, in this appalling story.

Yes, it is all shocking, almost unbelievable. How did we get here? What would our forefathers scurrying past the University Church and the Radcliffe Camera in their gowns have made of it? they wouldn’t have understood.

there is another shocking aspect to this ghastly tale, which in a way is equally inexplicable. It is a form of dishonesty and manipulation that shames us all.

When Blake was sentenced on Monday, the BBC correspondent duncan Kennedy referred to the murderer as a ‘woman’, as did news anchor Ben Brown. the BBC website was slightly more candid about Blake’s transgender identity, with an article noting that ‘she came out to her parents as transgender at 12’.

our national broadcaster wasn’t alone in censoring the truth. As the writer J. K. Rowling has pointed out, in reporting the sentence, Sky news described Blake as a ‘woman’. An article on the broadcaster’s website did mention that Blake is transgender, but this was well down the piece.

the Guardian was no less misleading. the newspaper used the word ‘woman’ to describe Blake in the headline of an article about the case, while failing to mention in the text that the murderer was transgender.

Concealed

this so enraged a longstanding contributor to the Guardian, Louise tickle, that she wrote to its editor accusing the newspaper of ‘deceiving its readers’, and leaving them unaware that Blake was a ‘male killer’. She declared that ‘nowhere in the piece did I pick up any reference to the killer being transgender’.

the Guardian was evidently stung by these criticisms as it subsequently amended its online version of the article to include the fact that Blake has a ‘transgender identity’. nonetheless, this was information that had been initially withheld from readers — or deliberately concealed.

this is a very serious omission, and least forgivable in the case of the BBC, which as a public service broadcaster supported by the licence fee has a special responsibility not to twist the truth to suit a politically correct agenda.

Some half-witted people will argue — indeed, they are already doing so online — that whether Blake is a man or a woman is beside the point. All that matters is that he — and I will use the male pronoun — is a killer.

But describing Blake for what he is — a male who has transitioned in a process that is clearly not complete — should be a sacred duty for any journalist who cares about the truth.

to omit the fact of his real sex is to be complicit in a distortion. It serves to give the impression that women are more violent than they are. If this falsehood is repeated in other cases, people will end up with a mistaken view.

Terrifying

In this instance, the concealment of Blake’s sex is a kind of insult to poor Jorge Martin Carreno, the murdered man. He was apparently deceived into thinking that Scarlet Blake was a woman, and paid for it with his life.

Let us all try to tell the truth — and then we may interpret the truth as we will. no one with a brain will contend that transgender women are likely to be killers. What counts is that Blake was.

the media companies that I have mentioned — and I’m sure there are others — have been so cowed by transgender activists that they dare not tell the truth. Worse still, they try to hide it. that is a terrifying portent for our society.

What a dreadful story this is in every way. So much of what is bad about our age — the filth that streams through the internet, irresponsible programmes, the mindless violence, the sexual perversion — has coalesced in one place, a place where fine men such as John Henry newman, vicar of the same University Church, once walked.

no, they could not have easily understood our rotten world, nor indeed the appetite of some among us to twist the truth.