Patrick Radden Keefe

And if you went to the website of this business, there was a big photo.

It appeared to show Akbar

receiving an award from Narendra Modi, the head of state in India.

He seemed quite established.

He'd gone to Cambridge University.

He came from a wealthy family.

He lived in Mayfair, a very posh district in central London.

And at one point, you know, Zach would kind of go and hang out with him.

And sometimes Zach would walk his dog.

He had a big dog.

very expensive looking dog, a Weimaraner.

And at one point, Rochelle, Zach's mother, went with Zach on a walk and they went to an office that Akbar had on Barclay Square in Mayfair.

I mean, just these kind of absurdly fancy addresses.

Listen, I mean, I think that the uncanny place in which they found themselves was one which would be familiar to a lot of people who've parented an adolescent or a young adult where they were concerned.

They felt as though, quite apart from all this, they felt as though their son had turned into a bit of a stranger.

Yeah.

They felt that he was becoming somebody they didn't understand.

They felt that he was maybe quite consciously rejecting them and their values.

But they also didn't want to cast him out entirely.

And at a certain point, he turns, you know, he meets, by the time he meets Akbar Shamji, he's 18.