Cameron Blair family speak of 'emptiness' as teenager detained for threatening partygoers

The judge said the boy's behaviour on the night was fuelled by immaturity, bravado, a perceived invincibility as well as a lack of consequential thinking.

Kathy and Noel Blair, parents of the late, Cameron Blair: "Whose family will be next to get the dreaded phone call?". Photo: Collins Courts

The family of murdered student Cameron Blair have said that violent knife crime "has to stop". "Whose family will be next to get the dreaded phone call?", Cameron's uncle Aidan Donnelly asked while reading a statement on behalf of the Blair family outside the Criminal Courts of Justice today.

"As a parent you pray each night your child goes out that no harm will come to them and that they return home safely. We also hope and pray that they do not cross paths with people who arm themselves with knives and are violent," the statement read.