Shocking double life of disgraced fakeâprincipal exposed Before his lies came undone, fake teacher Neil Lennie was respected by students and his peers â but it can be revealed his scams went much further.
Crime by Genevieve Alison and Ashley Argoon 8th Apr 2021 12:15 PM
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Subscriber only A fake headmaster has been Âexposed as a mastermind behind a plan to open a 4000-student, multi-campus elite private school.
Neil Lennie, 72, was convicted last month of four counts of Âobtaining financial advantage by deception after he was busted for teaching at some of Melbourne s most prestigious schools from 1976 to 2000 without a licence.
The shocking depths of disgraced fake school principal Neil Lennie s fraudulence has been laid bare - with revelations he also masqueraded as a doctor and even tried to launch his own exclusive private school.
The now 72-year old narrowly avoided being jailed in March for a scam which started in 1976 - 44 years ago - when he scored his first job in a school by lying that he had a degree in teaching.
Lennie was in fact a serial university drop-out who had only finished Year 12.
He was sentenced in the County Court of Victoria to a suspended jail term and community corrections order after pleading guilty to four counts of obtaining a financial advantage by deception over the life-long scam.
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