Scarlet will be sentenced at 2.15 today. Victim statements and prosectution submissions were made this morning.
Prosectuion argue it was a sexually motivated killing.
'Ms Morgan KC said: "The overall depravity of the defendant's conduct means the court can place it in a [higher category].
"If the court was against us, we would respectively submit that the sexual motivation and gratification are a significant aggravating feature.
"We submit that the language then that the court may wish to focus on is whether the seriousness of the murder can be construed as particularly high."'
'It is the prosecution's case the murder was a 'murder involving sexual conduct', this is due to evidence about Blake using strangulation on herself and on others for 'sexual gratification'.
"The acts were linked to the inherent link of death," she said. "This is linked to the defendant's broader interest in violence, harm and death.
"The sexual gratification drawn from discussing such events with others. The defendant in her own words described the events of the killing being hot.
"The defendant derived obvious sexual gratification throughout the course of the cat-killing video.
"She subsequently described those events as sexual pleasure in relaying the events with Evie Brockman.
"All that evidence clearly establishes a sexual motivation for the killing. Plainly after the event, the defendant gains sexual gratification from the murder."'
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Defence argues it was a 'straightforward' murder.
'"The court has to be satisfied that one or the other or both took place. But none of those actions, on the face of it, are sexual.
"It's a simple, straightforward - if I can put it that way - killing."'