Zayne Jackson is a Year 9 student at Waterloo Road High School and the younger brother of Dwayne Jackson. He is a friend of Verity King. Joe Casey and Mike Rutherford are his foster parents.
Series 11[]
Zayne and Verity arrive outside Neil Guthrie's house to help Dwayne and Tonya Walters dig up what Tonya thinks is Neil's dead wife, however her theories are ultimately proven wrong.
Series 12[]
In Series 12, Dwayne and Zayne's birth mother Lisa shows up, and Zayne does not recognise her. Lisa wants the boys to live with her, and Dwayne wants that too, but Myles Massey, deliberately stirring up trouble, gets into Zayne's head and makes him oppose the idea. Ultimately, Dwayne and Zayne stay with Mike and Joe, but still see Lisa sometimes.
Series 13[]
Zayne only appears once in Series 13, briefly in Series 13 Episode 3 when Mike is being removed from the school after being accused of sexual misconduct with Shola Aku.