# Brian MacKinnon jailed for extortion after threatening former professor

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/failed-medical-student-who-posed-as-schoolboy-in-bizarre-plot-to-become-a-doctor-in-1993-breaks-into-the-bedroom-of-the-professor-he-still-blames-and-threatens-to-kill-him/
- Published: 2026-11-15T08:54:19+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-15T09:19:58+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16294013/Brian-MacKinnon-student-posed-schoolboy-1993-professor-threatens-kill-him.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: Offbeat, Weird & Viral, World

## Key points

- MacKinnon admitted attempting to extort his former professor.
- He threatened the professor and his wife during a home invasion.
- The grievance followed comments shown in a film about his school hoax.

## Summary

Brian MacKinnon has been jailed on remand after admitting attempted extortion over a home invasion targeting his former professor, Brian Whiting, and Whiting’s wife. The case matters because it followed a decades-old grievance linked to MacKinnon’s notorious deception: posing as a teenager to return to school and pursue medical studies.

The court heard that MacKinnon, now 63, hid in the couple’s home for nine hours before confronting them in their bedroom and threatening to kill them unless Whiting retracted comments about him. The comments appeared in a 2022 film, broadcast by BBC Scotland on 27 September last year; the raid took place the following day. Whiting, 87, and his wife, 83, were left terrified, and the judge said MacKinnon was likely to receive a significant custodial sentence.

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