PRINCIPAL Magistrate Judy Latchman, on Monday, dismissed the case against Mikhail McLennon who had allegedly impersonated a medical doctor, owing to the non-appearance of witnesses.

McLennon, 27, of Pattensen, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown was before Magistrate Judy Latchman at the Diamond Magistrates’ Court.

He made his first court appearance in October 2022, and denied that, on June 3, 2022, at Peter’s Hall, East Bank Demerara, he pretended to Bibi Hassan that he was a person qualified to practise medicine.

He was out on $80,000 bail.

On Monday, McLennon’s trial was scheduled to commence, but the prosecution failed to produce witnesses.

Citing numerous delays in the case, Magistrate Latchman dismissed the case due to want of prosecution.

He was represented by attorney Bernard DaSilva.

The Guyana Chronicle had reported that McLennon’s qualifications were first publicly called into question in June when Hassan, the president of Guyana Cancer Foundation, distanced the organisation from him. McLennon was previously named as an affiliate of the organisation.

“Guyana Cancer Foundation wishes to notify the general public that Mikhail Radius McLennon is not a doctor and they [sic] are no records showing he is registered at [the] Medical Council of Guyana. He had asked to volunteer with Guyana Cancer Foundation.

I took him as a volunteer but then persons from the media and others called to confirm that he is not a doctor. I questioned him about his Medical Degree, and he refused to send a copy of it to us. He said he is working as a Medical Officer/Pharmacist at ROK Pharmacy and there is no such pharmacy exist [sic]! He [is] no longer affiliated with Guyana Cancer Foundation!” Hassan had shared on social media.

A copy of a document reported to be McLennon’s curriculum vitae was also published by the foundation.