Appeal Court cannot change juvenile sentencing errors, Cameron Blair murderer told

The judge said the issue arose because children are sentenced to detention and cannot be sentenced to imprisonment.

The three-judge court was asked to consider what jurisdiction it had in the case of a now 20-year-old man who was sentenced to detention for life with a review after 13 years having pleaded guilty to the murder of Cameron Blair (pictured). File picture: Gavin Browne

If the Court of Appeal finds that another court has made an error in sentencing a juvenile, it would not be able to impose a new sentence once the person turns 18, according to a judgment delivered today.

The three-judge court was asked to consider what jurisdiction it had in the case of a now 20-year-old man who was sentenced to detention for life with a review after 13 years having pleaded guilty to the murder of Cameron Blair. The court heard that the appellant was just shy of his 18th birthday in April 2020 when he was sentenced by Mr Justice Paul McDermott at the Central Criminal Court.