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Teen gets two years for brandishing knife at Cameron Blair murder scene

Date
2021-07-12

Stage
Sentence

Primary locality
Cork City

County
Cork

Summary

In Cork city, teenager Scott O'Connor was jailed for two years after brandishing a knife outside a house party where 20‑year‑old student Cameron Blair was murdered. The judge said O'Connor deliberately armed himself and threatened people for five minutes on a public street, but did not use the weapon. He had pleaded guilty to violent disorder and to producing a knife capable of serious injury. The court noted that O'Connor's actions contributed to the hostile atmosphere that preceded Blair's fatal stabbing. O'Connor's sentences for violent disorder and for producing the knife run concurrently and were back‑dated to the time he entered custody. The judge highlighted O'Connor's early guilty pleas, cooperation with Gardaí and lack of prior convictions as mitigating factors. The sentence was imposed in the Central Criminal Court by Mr Justice David Keane.

Who, what, where, when and why

What: Report matter: Teen gets two years for brandishing knife at Cameron Blair murder scene. Charges or matters: producing an article capable of inflicting serious injury in the course of a dispute, to wit a knife, in a manner likely unlawfully to intimidate another person on the same occasion; his murder; murdering Cameron on Bandon Road in Co Cork on January 16, 2020. Procedural stage: sentence

When:

January 16, 2020 Incident
October 2017 Incident
April 2020 Other
June 28 Incident
2021-07-12 Publication

Why: The boy, who could not be named because he was a minor, pleaded guilty to murdering Cameron on Bandon Road in Co Cork on January 16, 2020. CNI source report

Case subjects

Scott O'Connor

Convicted Person

Charges: producing an article capable of inflicting serious injury in the course of a dispute, to wit a knife, in a manner likely unlawfully to intimidate another person on the same occasion; his murder; murdering Cameron on Bandon Road in Co Cork on January 16, 2020 (Admitted)

Plea: Guilty

Outcome: Photo: Collins) A teenager who was "clearly threatening violence" when he brandished a knife outside a house party in Cork city where 20-year-old college student Cameron Blair was murdered has been jailed for two years. O'Connor was sentenced to two years for violent disorder and two years for the production of the knife.