Cameron Blair: Sentence imposed on man who brandished knife before fatal stabbing is ‘too lenient’, Court of Appeal told

Lawyer for the DPP says killing could not be 'laid at the door' of man found guilty of violent disorder, but he had an 'extremely high' degree of culpability

A juvenile who cannot be named is serving a life sentence for killing Cameron Blair, but another teenager, who is now aged 20, had been found guilty of committing violent disorder on the night. Picture Denis Boyle

The two-year sentence imposed on a teenager who brandished a knife outside a house party in Cork City where 20-year-old college student Cameron Blair was stabbed to death was unduly lenient, the Court of Appeal has been told.

Scott O’Connor, now 20, had pleaded guilty in January last year at the Central Criminal Court to committing violent disorder at Bandon Rd in Cork on January 16, 2020.