Teenager sentenced for violent disorder over Blair death

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A teenage boy was sentenced for violent disorder at the Central Criminal Court on 23 July 2021, receiving two years’ detention followed by two years’ supervision. Mr Justice David Keane imposed the sentence.

He pleaded guilty to violent disorder. The boy said he had drunk vodka from a bowl and that his memory was “a bit hazy”, with flashbacks, but the judge did not accept his memory lapses. The report said he had armed himself with a butter knife, punched a girl in the eye and was present when Cameron Blair was stabbed in the neck during a row outside a Cork house party on 16 January 2020.