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Teen was holding knife outside house where Cameron Blair was murdered, witness tells trial

Date
2021-06-01

Stage
Trial

Primary locality
Cork City

County
Cork

Summary

The Central Criminal Court trial of a 16-year-old accused, who cannot be named due to his age, continues before Mr Justice David Keane. The teenager, who was 14 at the time of the incident, has pleaded not guilty to producing a knife capable of inflicting serious injury in a manner likely to unlawfully intimidate another person. He has already pleaded guilty to committing violent disorder with two others at a house on Bandon Road in Cork city on January 16, 2020. The court heard evidence from Dave Sheehan, a friend of the deceased, Cameron Blair, a 20-year-old student at Cork Institute of Technology. Sheehan testified that he saw the accused holding a small knife in his left hand during an argument outside the house where Blair was subsequently stabbed in the neck. Sheehan stated he saw the knife "with my eyes" and described the accused as waving it while arguing with others. Another juvenile has already pleaded guilty to Blair's murder. The jury is tasked with determining whether the accused produced the knife in connection with the dispute. The trial is ongoing and was not adjourned or finalised during this session.

Who, what, where, when and why

What: Report matter: Teen was holding knife outside house where Cameron Blair was murdered, witness tells trial. Charges or matters: his murder; the production of a knife in connection with the murder of Cameron at a house on Bandon Road in Cork city on January 16, 2020; producing an article capable of inflicting serious injury in the course of a dispute, to wit a knife, in a manner likely to unlawfully intimidate another person; murdering Cameron. "He asked me to buy them some drink and I said yes so then he walked with me to Centra," he explained. "I told him that he and his friends were going to have to leave as the people who owned the house had said that to me," he remarked; his friend's murder, do anything to Cameron as he was staring at the girl who was punched; committing violent disorder with two other persons present together, using or threatening to use unlawful violence, and such c

When:

January 16, 2020 Hearing Or Sentence
Thursday January 16 Other
2021-06-01 Publication

Why: The now 16-year-old accused, who cannot be named because he is a minor, has pleaded not guilty to producing an article capable of inflicting serious injury in the course of a dispute, to wit a knife, in a manner likely to unlawfully intimidate another person. CNI source report

Case subjects

Cork Institute

Accused

Charges: his murder; the production of a knife in connection with the murder of Cameron at a house on Bandon Road in Cork city on January 16, 2020; producing an article capable of inflicting serious injury in the course of a dispute, to wit a knife, in a manner likely to unlawfully intimidate another person; murdering Cameron. "He asked me to buy them some drink and I said yes so then he walked with me to Centra," he explained. "I told him that he and his friends were going to have to leave as the people who owned the house had said that to me," he remarked; his friend's murder, do anything to Cameron as he was staring at the girl who was punched; committing violent disorder with two other persons present together, using or threatening to use unlawful violence, and such conduct taken together would cause a person of reasonable firmness present at Bandon Road in Cork city to fear for his or another person's safety at the said place on the same occasion (Admitted)

Plea: Guilty

Dave Sheehan

Accused

Plea: Guilty