BOTH RESIDENTS AND school officials testified that they did not know Shemar Weekes to gamble or behave badly as suggested in other testimony during the inquest into his death.
Shemar was an above average student, said principal of the Coleridge & Parry School, Vincent Fergusson, and the school’s guidance counsellor Cheryl Rose said she never had any concerns about the smiling student’s behaviour. 
Fergusson said if Shemar had cursed a teacher or gambled, those type of serious offences would have been drawn to his attention but the only complaints listed on his report was that he was talkative and easily distracted. The school never had to call in his parents and he had a good start in school but suffered a fall-off in term two.
Fergusson said the school received a call from Calista “Mabel” Daniel, who was concerned that Shemar’s mother was abusing him, but they had not seen any evidence to suggest he was anything other than a regular first former. (AC)
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