What do you think of this alternative view of AK?
I don't agree with many of you on WS or other followers of this case including the police. IMO AK is not intellectually challenged. He is simply playing the role he could have learnt when he was young that acting dumb and lying pays off. Even is own father believes it.
IMO MC and AK lacked a moral compass in that their attitude was "if you can get away with it, then it's OK." I can even predict that when AK and MC met on that cruise, AK could have played hard to get. After all, he was eleven years younger than MC, she was married, had a child and became besotted with AK. So if she wanted him to join her somewhere, he probably told her that he couldn't afford it, so she started offering to pay. When he told her he liked skiing, she took him skiing as only the best would do for AK. When she told him she was married, he told her that she would have to leave her husband as he was only interested in getting married - not just having an affair. He then possibly upped the stakes and told her that he would like to live in a big house with a harbour view near Bondi where he worked, then eventually he could have asked her for a sports car and so it goes on. The beginning of MC's serious fraud began soon after MC met AK as not long after she started her own company. AK was probably wondering how far MC would go to show her "love" for him! He wasn't worried about how she got the money so he turned a blind eye. As she was growing older and approaching 50, MC was probably worried that he would go off with another woman so she had to look after her appearance so she started buying expensive jewellery and designer clothes so that she would look the best woman in the room. The media has suggested that MC was a narcissist but AK is a narcissist too - just a covert one. AK knew that MC would do or buy anything to please him.