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Who the Hell is Hamish?

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Who the Hell is Hamish?
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  • Who the Hell is Hamish?

    3: The Gatsby of the Great Lakes

    2026/08/11 | 36 mins.
    Hamish arrived in sleepy Blueys Beach with a beautiful woman on his arm, and on the run from his past. Rumours of dark deeds wafted through in his wake. Then he met Bec Rosen. He'd shower her with love. They'd be married on the balcony of a beach shack. He'd become a father figure to her boys.
    And then he'd cruelly betray them all.
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  • Who the Hell is Hamish?

    2: Fashion Crimes

    2026/08/11 | 35 mins.
    Hamish McLaren was always attracted to the high-life. It was inevitable he'd gravitate to fashion. And so, nestled among the retirees and energy healers, Hamish stole from was another name: Lisa Ho. But had Hamish met his match in this high profile Sydney designer?
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  • Who the Hell is Hamish?

    1: The Day Max Died

    2026/08/11 | 19 mins.
    Tracy fell in love with Max Tavita, a man who won her over with tales of a life in the investment world and how he was working in the World Trade Center in New York when the first plane hit in 2001. Then Hamish crashed into their lives.
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  • Who the Hell is Hamish?

    Bonus: Judge Colin Charteris

    2019/06/21 | 2h 17 mins.
    The swan song of judge Colin Charteris - his final words from the bench, the sentencing of Hamish McLaren.
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  • Who the Hell is Hamish?

    Bonus: Nick Park

    2019/03/29 | 33 mins.
    Nick Park is a trader who worked alongside Hamish Watson on the Sydney Futures trading floor in the mid 1990s, he suspected something was off with Hamish from the start.
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About Who the Hell is Hamish?
He was born Hamish Watson, a surfie dude from Sydney – but he could morph into whatever you needed him to be. After pleading guilty to 18 charges, Hamish McLaren was sentenced in June 2020 to an aggregate sentence of 16 years in prison with a non-parole period of 12 years for 17 counts of fraud. He was given a fixed sentence of 7 years and 6 months for a single charge of money laundering, to be served concurrently. His overall sentence was reduced to 12 years imprisonment with a nine-year non-parole period on appeal in 2021. McLaren was released in July 2026 after nine years behind bars. These crimes are just the final pages in a resume too thick to staple; for decades he’s duped victims in the US, Canada, Britain, Hong Kong and Australia. How did he do it? How did he evade authorities around the world for so long and what’s he done with all those tens of millions of dollars he stole?
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