Cameron Blair: Case collapses against teenager accused of producing knife in dispute

Mr Justice Keane said he would direct a probation report and he remanded the accused on continuing bail until July 12.

Cameron Blair, a chemical engineering student at CIT, died at Cork University Hospital last year after being stabbed in the neck at a house on Bandon Road in Cork City on January 16, 2020. File photo: Gavin Browne

The trial of a teenager accused of producing a knife during an incident that led to Cork student Cameron Blair being murdered has collapsed, after two key witnesses left the country for Cyprus.

A 16-year-old boy had been on trial at the Central Criminal Court charged with the production of a knife at a house on Bandon Road in Cork city on January 16, 2020.