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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Auckland bars are heaving as Metallica prepares to rock Eden Park tonight - its first Kiwi concert in 15 years.
About 40,000 visitor nights have been booked for the sell-out concert, with the city’s hotels at 100 percent capacity.
Roads near Eden Park are closed until midnight.
Kingsland's Full-Time Bar manager, Shane Don, says business is booming this afternoon.
"We're stacked in here, everyone's kitted out like bogans, I'm kitted out like a bogan, and I honestly feel like I've walked back 30 years."
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