It is 2023 now. Matthew Lani is 27 years old. He is a young South African man. He has over 300,000 followers on TikTok. He was popular on the Internet as one of the youngest doctors in South Africa.
Matthew Lani often told his followers that he was a wunderkind (神童), skipping several high-school grades to graduate at age 16, before studying medicine at Wits University. He often filmed himself walking around through hospitals. In these videos, he told people that he is on his way to see patients and he even gave medical advice to his followers, or sold them medicine.
Last month, Matthew Lani was caught inside the Helen Joseph Hospital in Johannesburg. This was not his first time dressing up as a doctor in the hospital on the Internet. But it was the first time he was caught. After being caught, the TikTok star asked to go to the bathroom, only to try to escape through a small window. Someone realized he was making a run for it, and called for backup. Lani was caught once again and sent to the police.
South Africa’s National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said that it had “no evidence(证据)” to charge Matthew Lani with. There was no real case against him. “What he did… in fact, he was just doing it for fun,” Lani’s lawyer (律师) said.
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