Carl Bloomfield sliced teen’s ear with scissors after years of fantasising about torture, cutting

“I LOVE the taste of humans and I love the smell of blood”. With these words, cold eyes and an expressionless face, Carl William Sedgwick Bloomfield leaned in and, with blunt scissors, removed a slice from a boy’s ear.

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“I LOVE the taste of humans and I love the smell of blood”.

With these words, cold eyes and an expressionless face, Carl William Sedgwick Bloomfield leaned in and sliced off almost half of a boy’s ear with blunt scissors.

Then, handing the severed piece to the bleeding victim he’d never met before, he took out his phone and calmly photographed his handiwork as he thought of putting the bloodied flesh into his mouth and eating it.

The full and profound impact of this ordeal on the boy has been revealed in court documents published after Judge Clive Wall rejected an application to jail Bloomfield indefinitely, despite three doctors’ evidence that he was a “moderate to high” or “significant” risk of causing “serious harm to members of the community”.

Instead, he was jailed for nine years and declared a serious violent offender, meaning he will have to serve 80 per cent of the sentence.

The New Zealand-born victim, then 16, who the Gold Coast Bulletin has chosen not to name, had been living in Australia studying for a trade but has since left the country after enduring “the most extreme and terrifying” part of his life.

Victim impact statements from the boy, his mother and uncle reveal the boy stopped sleeping, lost 15kg, became paranoid, angry, depressed and suicidal.

He left school and eventually the country, the judge said, and was reminded of the trauma “every time he looks in the mirror and sees his missing ear”.

The victim and his 15-year-old friend were walking at Varsity Lakes in 2013 as Bloomfield, then 18, tracked them to a jetty.

Bloomfield later told a psychiatrist, “I just wanted to smoke weed with them, and then when I saw the scissors, I had the thought of harming them”.

“I said ‘I was thinking I wanted to cut his tongue out ... I was feeling no emotions,” he told the psychiatrist.

He grabbed the 15-year-old’s tongue and pushed the scissors into it, drawing blood, before changing his mind about that and focusing on the other boy’s ear.

The psychiatrist’s report said Bloomfield, who once trained with the under-16 Gold Coast Titans and was on parole for armed robbery, “had enjoyed doing so”.

The report said he “considered cutting up his victim to a greater extent” but the blade was too blunt.

“He added that he had considered eating the pieces of ear that he had severed,” it said.

Cutting someone was a fantasy Bloomfield had many times before and since his arrest and imprisonment the documents reveal and he has spent the past three years in custody untreated for as many as six psychological disorders.

Judge Wall decided Bloomfield needed immediate intensive medication and treatment, not usually available to prisoners until two years out from parole and the evidence did not go far enough to warrant indefinite imprisonment.