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Exclusive interview: It's penitentiary, my dear Watson - Eric Watson on life in prison

Matt Nippert
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Business Investigations Reporter·NZ Herald·
15 mins to read

In his first significant interview in nearly a decade, controversial businessman Eric Watson talks to Matt Nippert and finally addresses his tax problems, Hanover Finance, that bitter split with former business partner Sir Owen Glenn, and what life in Pentonville Prison was really like.

His optimism was either relentless or delusional, but Eric Watson hadn't packed a toothbrush for his October 19 date in a London courtroom.

It was a sentencing hearing - the latest in a series of seemingly

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