I thought charming school pal was normal kid studying for A-levels – then he spilled his secret and all hell broke loose
AN awkward smirk spread across Brandon Lee’s face when his headmaster praised him for being an exemplary pupil who “acts like he’s been here from the very beginning”. What Norman MacLeod, head teacher of Bearsden Academy, didn’t realise was that his words weren’t far off the mark — as the supposed 16-year-old had been a pupil at his school nearly two decades earlier. Brandon was the fake name adopted by Brian MacKinnon, who — at the age of 30 — covertly returned to take his exams again in a bid to go back to medical school after apparently being booted out.