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- 2019
- First episode
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?
- Publisher
- The Australian
- Category
- news · true crime
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 4 Feb 2019
- Latest episode
- 21 Aug 2026
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Hedley Thomas’ new podcast investigation, The Poisoned Wife
Published 21 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But you never know what might happen, especially with publicity like this after all this time. For instance, Hedley and I have been talking about the types of things that could possibly occur for the case to be reinvestigated by police. We just don't know, but there certainly are possibilities for the case to take off again. What's the legitimate use of strychnine? Why would anyone have it? It's poison for rats and mice, Claire. It could wipe out plagues. As this old-fashioned and incredibly potent poison that would produce an agonising death, And it was the product of a tree that would grow in parts of Southeast Asia, even parts of Australia, came from the seed pods of the strychnos tree. […]
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