He was born Hamish Watson, a surfie dude from Sydney – but he could morph into whatever you needed him to be. Hamish is due to be sentenced to jail in early 2019 for swindling a handful of victims out of more than $7m. But 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 ...
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The bodies of two climbers who died near the summit of Aoraki Mt Cook have been recovered from the mountain. The mountain guide and a climber died after a fall shortly before midnight on Monday. The pair were in a group of four who were attempting a grand traverse of Aoraki Mt Cook. Samantha Gee has more.
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