Hamish McLaren was charming, manipulative and cunning - the ultimate conman. Over three decades and four continents, he stole millions of dollars from the vulnerable and the naïve using romance, lies and multiple identities.
And when he’d stripped his victims of everything, he walked away from their wrecked lives without a backwards glance.
So, who the hell is Hamish?
Hamish McLaren may be Australia’s greatest ever conman with an estimated 70 million dirty dollars stashed away somewhere in the world.
Sunday Night host and senior correspondent Melissa Doyle speaks with three of the women he scammed - the ex-wife, the wealthy friend and the former partner - all beautiful and intelligent women and all wondering how they were so easily duped.
This edition of SUNDAY NIGHT: TRUE STORIES hosted by Melissa Doyle airs on Sunday at 8.30pm on Seven and 7plus.
Hamish Thompson the executive producer of Sunday Night has been stood down pending the investigation of bullying and sexual harrassment claims against him by Lisa Ryan who is a producer with the program.
It is the most terrifying mid-air emergency in Australian history. And chances are you’ve never even heard about it.
In October 2008, Qantas flight 72 was on its way from Singapore to Perth. The flight seemed routine. Then suddenly, the plane’s automated systems went haywire and sent the Airbus into a death dive.
Captain Kevin Sullivan was at the controls that day. He had to draw on all the skills he had ever learned as a fighter pilot to bring the plane back from certain disaster. Only his cool head and heroism saved the 315 passengers and crew on board.
This Sunday Night , the previously untold story of Qantas’ worst-ever accident. How a plane went psycho, injuring one hundred passengers and crew, many seriously.
Sunday Night senior reporter Matt Doran sat down with injured passengers, crew members and the hero pilot. And for the first time, Captain Sullivan opens up about what went wrong, how he saved his plane and the lessons we should have learned from this shocking incident.
This edition of SUNDAY NIGHT: TRUE STORIES hosted by Melissa Doyle airs on Sunday at 8.30pm on Seven and 7plus.
The Pilot released a book about his experience a couple weeks ago (and considering the timing of this story, I wonder if HarperCollins has slipped some cash to Seven for this Sunday Night apperance).
Typical Channel 7 beat up claiming an exclusive that isn’t anywhere near exclusive. The SMH published a lengthy interview with Captain Sullivan in May 2017.
It used to be one of the best shows on TV. You could tune in every week and you’d be completely engrossed in whatever story was on. They were very good stories. Now, the stories are not very good TBH. It’s as if they are running out of stories! You could say the same for 60 Minutes also.
Personally I think both shows have for some years now, basically been extended Sunday night equivalents of Today Tonight and A Current Affair with many of the stories they run!
The allegation against executive producer Hamish Thompson is that at an after work gathering he said to producer Lisa Ryan 'that she needed “a good f…” '. Thompson who is suspended from Seven denies he said it, while Ryan has been on stress leave since a few days after the incident in May.
