He’s very clever and good with weapons: Suspect’s school yearbook revealed

‘He was odd – a bit different’

THE man suspected of fatally shooting Sgt Ratana was described as ‘good with weapons’ in his school leavers’ book unearthed yesterday.

Another former schoolmate calls him ‘very clever’ and a ‘maths geek’ in the keepsake.

Louis De Zoysa – the son of a translator mother and Sri Lankan yoga teacher father – attended the Roman Catholic all-boys John Fisher School in Purley, Croydon, alongside his younger brother, who now studies at Oxford University.

Meanwhile, in what appears to be taken from an earlier school yearbook, in neat handwriting beside a picture of himself, De Zoysa writes: ‘Do what you must, for I have already won.’

Yesterday a former classmate of De Zoysa, now 23, said he was destined for Oxbridge academia. He added that he was bullied at school because he was ‘different’ to the others on the rugbyobsessed campus. ‘When I saw the name come out I thought “it can’t be him because he was a top student”,’ he told the Mail.

‘He was in the top ten or 15 in the year group who were being considered to go to Oxford and Cambridge. But he was odd, into strange things. He was one of those people who is separate from everybody else. Very nerdy. He loved computer games.’

But the former acquaintance explained: ‘I didn’t think he was crazy: he was potentially autistic, but it was definitely not something diagnosed that we knew about.

‘I had a maths class with him and he was very intelligent. I think he did well at school so to be accused of being into drugs and shooting a police officer make me think something majorly went wrong in the last five years. I’m sure at the sixth form he had plans to go to university and he would have gone to a good one, for sure. They were an intelligent family.’

The source continued: ‘Only one or two people out of each year group go to Oxford and Cambridge and he was definitely poised to join that group.

‘He used to go on visits to the campuses in Oxford and other places. He did particularly well in maths and science.

‘He had his own small group of friends but he got bullied. It wasn’t violence, but there was name-calling because he was odd, a bit different. It was an allboys school, a rugby school, and he wasn’t like that. He was a bit different, academic. When there were awards evenings each year he and his brother were always up for something.’