A 17-Year-Old Boy Has Been Handed A Life Sentence For The Murder Of CIT Student Cameron Blair
His sentence will be reviewed in 13 years
The boy, who can’t be named because he’s under 18, admitted stabbing the 20-year-old at a house party in Cork city last January.
At his sentence hearing earlier this month, the court heard he stabbed him with a large kitchen knife because he wrongly thought his friend was in danger.
Before passing sentence today, the judge described what he did as a "vicious attack carried out with determination and intent on a defenceless young man".
The boy will be 18 next month, and would have been tried and sentenced as an adult if he had been convicted after his 18th birthday.
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