And while the Commissioner says that, the Jemmott family had tried to turn the outcome their way by submitting six victim impact statements that spoke to the magnitude of their loss.
One of those statements was signed as an affidavit last week by 18-year-old Maya Jemmott. Over the weekend she told us what she'd put in there.
Maya Jemmott, Henry Jemmott's Eldest Daughter
"I have written one, I have written what I believe is an affidavit and the DPP had me sign it on Wednesday. So, yeah Wednesday and I signed it read it over and it is now in her hands, I guess like you said I can speak but I don't know if I will, honestly, I despise crying in public."
"I. Spoke of the memories I had with my dad and how she will truly never understand the pain that she has caused me because there are many things that I wanted to learn from my Dad there are many things s that I have learned, and there are many moments that I treasure more now with my Dad because they are the only moments and experiences I have so to sum it up it's just more of me telling how I felt at that moment and I wrote that when I was 17 though I would love to polish it up a little bit more now I can read it and say that at that time it was just true emotions how I was feeling at that moment."
"He is gone my family is pushing me to the wayside and it continues to be just an uphill battle that I don't ever feel like I will win and it's very frustrating."
Cherisse Halsall:
"If and this is likely, she walks out of court on Wednesday and the judge say no jail time, how will you feel?"
Maya Jemmott, Henry Jemmott's Eldest Daughter
"Probably hurt, I will feel angry but as I said before I will also not. Be surprised I have been preparing myself for this moment for almost two years because tomorrow makes two years."
Cherisse Halsall:
"To the day."
Maya Jemmott, Henry Jemmott's Eldest Daughter
"To the day and though it doesn't matter how much I prepare myself for it will still be, it will still hurt me to my core, I will still have to pick up the pieces of my shattered heart, put them back together and move on because I would love for the moment that my Dad died to be just the moment where life stops so that I could handle it and just be. Stuck there for as long as I can but that is not reality. Life continues, life goes on and life doesn't stop because he passed so it doesn't matter what happens on the 31st of May I will still have to continue with my life I still have practice for a mass, practice for my Graduation ceremony, I still have CXC's that go all the way into like the middle of June that I need to handle and thought I would like to just curl up in a ball and just cry my eyes out it's not realistic, it's not something that I can do because I have to live."
The other 5 victim impact statements were submitted by Henry Jemmott's sisters Marie and Cherie, his common-law wife Romit Wilson, His colleague Dr Richard Rosado, and Mr Alpheus Nicolas.
