Christmas Day crash victim Malik Weeks loved to hear the beat of Gombey drums.And on Boxing Day, Place’s Gombey Troupe visited the home of his politician father Michael Weeks to perform a tribute in his memory.“We had 100 people yesterday at my house on St John’s Road. My son loved the Gombeys and they came to the house and blocked off the road for an hour. It was one big party — that was a good send off,” said Mr Weeks, a former Cabinet Minister who is the MP for Pembroke East Central.He was drawing comfort yesterday from family members including Malik’s mother, his ex-wife Terrylynn Doyle. Despite being overwhelmed with emotion when he spoke to The Royal Gazette about the loss of his eldest son, aged 24, Mr Weeks said: “I was telling someone just last night that I could let my son go because I did everything while he was alive. All of this [emotion] is part of the healing. I could let him go because I was the daddy that I should have been while he was alive.”Mr Weeks Jr is believed to have been en route to visit a cousin when his motorcycle was involved in single-vehicle crash on North Shore Road, Hamilton Parish, around 11.28pm on Christmas Day. Details about the accident remain unclear, and a police investigation is underway.He leaves a daughter, Maeisha, who turned four years old just two days before his death. Although she was in Canada visiting her mother at the time, Maeisha had lived with her father and his mother at their Devonshire home since this summer.Mr Weeks Sr, 52, said of Maeisha: “My granddaughter looks just like her daddy. I am trying to find some solace and reason as to why this had to happen to my son — and I thank God for my granddaughter. Some people pass and leave nothing but memories, so I give thanks that we have her. We want to give her all the opportunities and love we gave her daddy.”Sharing memories of Malik, who worked as a waiter at Ascot’s restaurant [see sidebar], Mr Weeks Sr recalled how they shared a love of sports and how his son had an encyclopedic knowledge of the National Football League (NFL).“He never developed into a talker — he was always a thinker. He had a quiet confidence and he was mischievous,” he said.Ms Doyle, 49, who is deputy principal at Clearwater Middle School, recalled how her son was “a very good student who was top of his class in primary and middle school”.He captained a school quiz team to second place in a Bermuda national competition and was “extremely bright,” according to his mother, as well as having a love for “mac and cheese, Reese’s chocolate and vanilla ice cream”.He attended Mount St Agnes and Berkeley Institute in Bermuda, before finishing his education at Ridley College and Seneca College in Ontario, Canada. He worked for CableVision when he first returned to the Island, then started at Ascot’s this summer.“He was very prompt and tidy — he made his time to work and had a very good work ethic,” said his mother. “I had a nice son — very respectful, loving, and very affectionate. He told me he loved me every day. He and his siblings were very close. They had each other’s backs and loved each other. We all loved him, so I feel at peace that he went knowing he was loved and supported.”Mr Weeks Jr spent Christmas Day working before attending a family gathering and then heading to a party on St Monica’s Road, Pembroke.“I gave him the father-son talk and told him to be careful and don’t drink,” said Mr Weeks Sr. “The last thing I said was ‘take care of yourself — I love you’ and he said ‘I love you too’. That was the last time we talked.”Mr Weeks Jr leaves three siblings — his sister Maeisha Weeks, who inspired his daughter’s name, brother Marcus Weeks and half-brother Dalji Waldron. Ms Weeks recalled how Christmas Day with her brother was “a day of laughs and hugs and kisses” and how he was “a good guy who very rarely went out and was not a drinker”.She explained: “He was very family oriented and before his daughter came, I was his pride and joy next to my Momma.”In addition to support from their family, Mr Weeks and Ms Doyle are grateful to the wider community for their messages of sympathy. “I haven’t been able to respond to the outpouring, but we really appreciate everybody’s support,” said Ms Doyle.A funeral service is being planned for next week, with details to be announced in due course. Meanwhile, anyone with information about the accident should call PC Sean Hassell of the Roads Police at 295-0011 or 247-1200.