#MostEvil | Jamie Lee Blake from Thetford, Norfolk (currently at HMP Bedford) for microwaving a stray cat to death while high on crack cocaine.
Blake cooked the young male black cat for three minutes in his bedsit while he was in a drug-induced psychosis.
Blake had befriended the cat, which he nicknamed Buddy, by letting him into his room at night and feeding him cheese and tuna.
He claimed that he argued with Buddy because he had told him that his mother’s former partner, now dead, had been injecting her with heroin.
After killing the cat, he later laughed and joked about his death with fellow residents at the John Room House sheltered housing unit where he lived in Thetford, Norfolk.
Buddy’s body was later found discarded in a wheelie bin along with the defendant’s microwave.
Staff at the unit viewed CCTV footage which showed him picking the cat up by the scruff of his neck and taking him into his room.
The footage showed him later leaving his room with a carrier bag which appeared to have the cat in it and then disposing of the microwave the following day.
Cat hair and other ‘matter associated’ with the cat was found in the microwave.
A post mortem carried out on Buddy confirmed that he had been microwaved to death.
Sally Dale, mitigating for Blake, said her client had a personality disorder which had been exacerbated by the use of crack cocaine.
Sentence: 22 weeks in a young offenders’ institution, banned from keeping animals for life
Updates
September 2015 | Blake was sentenced to six-and-a-half years in jail for his part in the systematic torture of a man over two days over a drug debt. At the time of writing (7/7/18) he remains in custody at HMP Bedford.
January 2019 | Blake was given an extra two years in jail after squirting a bottle of poo at two plumbers and a prison officer.
He was having the sink in his cell unblocked by two plumbers in February 2018 when he carried out the “disgusting” attack.
The court heard, Blake picked up an 18-inch piece of pipe and told the men to “get out” of his cell, before producing a plastic bottle containing faeces which he had prepared.
He had prepared the bottle as part of a planned protest whilst serving his sentence at HMP Bedford.
Blake squirted the bottle directly into the face of one man and then at the other, chasing them out of his cell and squirting them further, the court heard.
He then squirted the bottle into the face of a prison officer who attempted to intervene, the officer subsequently went on long-term absence.
The court was told the bottle’s contents had entered “the facial orifices” of two of the men, who had been left concerned about contracting diseases.
At Luton Crown Court on Friday January 11, 2019 Judge Andrew Bright QC said: “It’s hard to think of a more callous, degrading and disgusting series of assaults on men carrying out their public duties.”
Blake has 29 convictions for 56 offences.
While in prison, he has committed eight assaults on officers as well as two other offences, and has been moved repeatedly to different facilities.
Judge Bright QC said he accepted that Blake had had an “appalling upbringing”.
Two psychiatrists’ reports from 2015 and 2019 determined Blake had an emotionally unstable personality disorder, but otherwise had no diagnosed mental health problems that could be treated.