Schoolboy imposter subjected ex-professor and wife to 'terrifying ordeal'
Summary
Brian MacKinnon, 63, admitted in Glasgow’s High Court that he hid in the home of retired professor Brian Whiting and threatened Whiting and his wife, Marlene. The incident took place on 28 September, the day after a BBC programme about MacKinnon’s earlier impersonation was repeated.Key Facts
- MacKinnon posed as a 16-year-old pupil named Brandon Lee at Bearsden Academy in 1993, when he was 30.
- He earned five As in his Higher exams and gained a place to study medicine at the University of Dundee.
- An anonymous tip-off in 1995 revealed he had previously studied medicine at Glasgow University and had been expelled in 1983.
- Whiting, 87, was dean of Glasgow University’s medical school when MacKinnon studied there.
- MacKinnon entered the Whiting home in Glasgow around 16:30 while the rear door and gate were unlocked.
- He woke the couple at about 01:30, threatened them, and demanded that they release two statements.
- Marlene Whiting led MacKinnon downstairs and let him out through the front door.
- MacKinnon said he had people who would check whether the couple complied with his demands and threatened that they would be killed if they did not.
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