Brian MacKinnon
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Brian MacKinnon is a Scotsman who posed as a teenager Brandon Lee to get back to the medical school.
MacKinnon was a medical student in the Glasgow University. He kept failing his exams and was eventually taken off the course. According to his later interview, he felt he had to abandon his studies because of an illness. He later returned to study biological sciences but because he failed to register, he never officially graduated.
Determined to become a physician, he adopted a persona of Canadian teenager Brandon Lee. He intended to retake his Highers to circumvent his academic record and 1993 enrolled in the same school he had graduated from 13 years previously - Bearsden Academy in Glasgow.
He changed his appearance by taking a perm and plucking his eyebrows and forged two letters of introduction. In spite of the fact that he was 30, the teachers - many of whom had been there when he was studying there in the 1970s - and students accepted him as a 17-year-old newcomer.
The imposture lasted for two years, during which he finished with five Highers. In 1995 he was accepted by Dundee University's medical school. He took three girls to a holiday in Tenerife and after their return an anonymous phone call - presumably from one of the girls - exposed him. He left the Dundee University after four months although he later tried to reapply.
In a 1997 interview he said he was going to go back to medical school - even if he has to become someone else again.
He took a case against Glasgow University, accusing it of mistreatment for 'pre-emptorily excluding' him from his studies, to the European Courts in 2001. Since the European Courts were not in existence at the time of his original grievance, they could not do anything to help him.