A TEENAGER has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of student Cameron Blair in January of this year.
A seventeen-year-old boy, who cannot be named because of his age, will serve a minimum of 13 years before he is eligible for review in 2032.
He was sentenced at the Central Criminal Court today, Monday April 20, for Mr Blair's murder, which ocurred on 16 January this year.
Cameron Blair, a 20-year-old student of engineering in Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) died after he was stabbed in the neck at a house party on Bandon Street in the city at about 9pm on the night in question.
Cameron Blair died following an altercation at a house party in Cork.It is understood that an argument erupted at the party, with Mr Blair getting involved as a peacemaker, after several people, including the teenager guilty of his murder, tried to gate-crash the party.
The second-year student, from Ballinascarty in west Cork, was fatally injured when the teenage assailant attacked him with a knife, slashing him in the neck.
Cameron reportedly staggered out of the house and into the street where he eventually collapsed due to his injuries.
Emergency services treated him at the scene before he was taken by ambulance to Cork University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Three arrests were made in connection with the murder but just one, the 17-year-old, was jailed.
He will today be transferred from Oberstown Children Detention Campus to an adult prison to begin his sentence.
