A 17-year-old Newry teenager has been ordered to be detained at the pleasure of the Northern Ireland Secretary of State after being convicted of stabbing another youth to death.
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Darren Hart, from Mournewiew Park in Newry, Co Down, plunged a diver's knife into Brendan "Patch" McCabe (18) while on a shopping trip with his mother in the Canal Street area of Newry on February 28th last year.
The teenager, who ran off leaving Mrs Siobhan McCabe to cradle her son bleeding from a chest wound, was convicted in April at Newry Crown Court of his murder.
Outside the court, Mrs McCabe vowed to wait for Hart to be freed to "do to him what he did" to her son. She described the sentence he got as "disgusting", claiming: "he should have been kept in for the rest of his life because he is a danger to society".
Trial judge Lord Justice McCollum said that when the time comes for Hart to be released for the "shocking murder", his view that the teenager is "a potentially dangerous and violent criminal" should be taken into account by the Life Sentence Review Commissioners.
Lord Justice McCollum said he had no doubt that Hart, whom he described as somebody who "seeks to be the centre of attention" and prepared to act violently to achieve it, had "deliberately engineered the confrontation" with Mr McCabe.
The judge also described as "most reprehensible" that the "dangerous and devious" Hart should have involved three other teenagers in his crime.
The teenagers - two girls and a boy who cannot be named for legal reasons - received varying terms ranging from probation, suspended detention sentence to a conditional discharge for assisting an offender.