2023-11-28 14:03:00
A man who wanted to fulfill his father’s dream and become a doctor, posed as a 15-year-old student and thus pursue his degree once more, however, It was a document that gave him away.
Under the name Brandon Lee, which caused laughter among the other students because the previous month, Bruce Lee’s son had died accidentally while recording the film ‘The Raven’; The man arrived in the classroom at Bearsden Academy in 1993.
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By having more wrinkles than normal, with less hair, taller than the rest of the students and with a greater vocabulary than the others, he made no distinction between students and teachers when I told them I was 15 years old
Brandon told everyone that he had come from Canada, with his mother, and following she died, he was sent to live with his grandmother in Bearsden. But as time goes by, little by little his actions were giving him away, from their gestures and trivialities, to the cultural.
The alleged young man answered difficult questions to the teachers, had outstanding grades and showed himself to be a connoisseur of 80’s music, in addition, He helped the other students with their homework and took them home by car, (an attitude that was surprising because 15-year-old children mightn’t drive).
Thus he returned to live as a fifteen-year-old for more than a year until he graduated and entered medical school from the University of Dundee.
How was it discovered?
When he was a regular student studying medicine in August 1995, Brandon traveled to Spain on vacation with two companions, neglecting his passport and there he was discovered. In reality, Lee was Brian MacKinnon and the man he accompanied was not 15 but over 30.
The director of the University soon found out and asked him to bring his birth certificate; The deception had come to an end and he had to walk away from the race, because they did not accept people over 30.
In addition to the discovery, a teacher betrayed him, since, for the second time in his last classes, a young man similar to a student of his from the late 70’s.
What was Brian’s plan?
The man had planned everything to be able to attend medical school once more and thus fulfill his father’s dream, but he failed in the past and I had to start over.
When he wanted to try a second time, he realized that the university did not accept students over 30 years old, so he pretended to be a teenager and did the last years of school once more so that in Dundee gave him a new chance.
After the MacKinnon case, the school tightened enrollment measures and forced everyone to present their birth certificate when registering.
El documental “My old School”
Brian’s story reached television and a documentary was made regarding the hoax named: My Old School. The actor Alan Cumming plays the protagonist, in addition, several Former colleagues spoke regarding their experiences with him in those years.
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