An imposter who made headlines around the world for posing as a school pupil in his 30s has appeared in court and admitted hiding in the home of his former university professor before subjecting him to a "terrifying ordeal"
Brian MacKinnon targeted Prof Brian Whiting, 87, as he lay in bed with his wife, the day after a BBC docudrama on his ruse was broadcast.
My Old School chronicled MacKinnon's return to Bearsden Academy, as Brandon Lee, a 16-year-old who had supposedly just moved to Scotland from Canada.
MacKinnon hatched the plan so he could pursue his dream of becoming a doctor having been thrown out of Glasgow University, when Prof Whiting was dean of the medical school.
The model pupil who was a 30-year-old imposter
MacKinnon - who was formerly a pupil at the East Dunbartonshire school from 1974 to 1980 - returned in 1993 and secured five As in his Higher exams.
As a result he earned a place at the University of Dundee to study medicine.
But in 1995 an anonymous tip-off revealed he had previously spent two years as a medical student at the University of Glasgow and did not complete the course.
MacKinnon was thrown out of the medical school in 1983 following a failed appeal.
