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‘He was my everything’

Keen runner: Nakeno Creighton

A grieving mother has spoken of her despair at losing her child in a fatal road traffic accident.Ina Trott described her son, Nakeno Creighton, as “my everything, my whizz kid” after the 17-year-old CedarBridge Academy student was killed in an accident near his home in St David’s on Wednesday evening.Keno, a talented athlete, died after his bike collided with a truck on St David’s Road near the junction with Bay Estates Road at around 5.30pm.Ms Trott described her son as “a lovely, lovely child” who loved to entertain.“Although I have three sons, Keno was my everything,” Ms Trott said.“We always said that he would be the one to stay behind at home to look after me after everyone else has left home. He was my whizz kid, and he was the one who was always looking out for me.“He was bright, intelligent, obedient, but he also loved to entertain. He was always entertaining, playing the class clown, but he was also always very respectful. I would tell him that he had to focus first and be serious, there would be plenty of time for clowning around afterwards. But now, that’s what I’m going to miss most about him — his sense of humour.“But while he could entertain, he was always very obedient. And if you showed him just a small amount of interest, or attention, you had his heart for life — he would do anything for you.”Although Keno loved to entertain and joke, there was one thing that the teenager was very serious about — sport. As family and friends gathered in the living room of Ms Trott’s Orange Hole Road home yesterday morning, a television in one corner of the room played home video footage of a young Keno taking part in one of his first athletics meets.“He was a natural athlete,” his mother said as she leafed through an album containing newspaper cuttings of Keno’s sporting triumphs.“He was really into his running, from the age of four when he started with the Bermuda Pacers. He won the Front Street Mile in his age group, and came fourth in his age group in the May 24 half marathon this year.“He also loved rugby, football, cycling, triathlon, softball — he did just about anything. The one sport that he didn’t really take up was swimming, but apart from that, he was into any sport, and he would always give it everything, he would always try his best.”Keno was due to start his final year at CedarBridge in September, and was looking forward to competing in more athletics events as a senior high school student.“He was really looking forward to the next race weekend in January as it was the last time he could compete as a student, and he wanted to go out with a bang,” Ms Trott said.Despite his potential as an athlete, Keno was not considering a career in sport.“His goal was to finish school next year, and then join the US military,” Ms Trott said, adding that Keno’s father is an American citizen living in Florida.“In fact we were talking about his future on Sunday, and he was on Facebook to his father talking about going over to the US next year.”Ms Trott, who works for Butterfield Bank, said her son had left his grandmother’s home in Devonshire on Wednesday evening to visit a lifelong friend who had just returned to the Island from overseas.She was at her mother’s home preparing to go to her second job at the Blue Hole Hill gas station. Before she could leave for work, she received a telephone call from a colleague explaining that Keno had been involved in an accident and that “it did not look good”.“I was told to go straight to the hospital,” Ms Trott said.“I was worried, but thinking that it would be something like a broken leg. But then, sitting there waiting for the ambulance, I sensed something, I had a feeling.“When the ambulance arrived I spoke to the doctor and was told that they lost Keno on the way to the hospital.“Keno touched so many lives, and everything is just unreal at the moment. It’s such a shock right now, it’s overwhelming.”Last night elder brother Mical also paid tribute to Keno.“He was a fearless individual who enjoyed life to the fullest and whatever he put his mind to he saw it through,” Mical, 24, said.“Nakeno was very family oriented, and knew what it was like to have a great support system encouraging his endeavours. Besides from having the role as a younger brother to myself, and being an older brother to Isaiah, he was fortunate enough to have the hat of an uncle for the past 18 months to his nephew Mcaiz, whom he adored, and always found time for.“He had won the Front Street Mile twice, and was looking to win it one more time as a senior high school student.”

Sports mad: Nakeno Creighton
Determined runner: Nakeno Creighton running in this years May 24 Half Marathon Derby. (Photo by Akil Simmons)
Appeal for witnesses

Police have issued a fresh appeal for witnesses to Wednesday evening’s accident to come forward, and believe that bus passengers may have information.

Nakemo Creighton was killed after he collided with a truck on St David’s Road at around 5.30pm, after reportedly trying to overtake the bus.

Last night a police spokesman said: “Apparently there were a number of individuals on bus Number 6 that left St George’s heading to St David’s at 5.15pm on Wednesday, fifteen minutes before the fatal collision that claimed the life of 17-year-old Nakeno Creighton of St George’s.

“We are specifically appealing to any of those bus passengers that may have witnessed the incident to contact Police Constable Walter Jackson at the Roads Policing Unit on 247-1788.”