[3] In the mid-seventies he shifted his focus to weightlifting and eventually won a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games in 1978[2] in the heavyweight class.
Having sent and then escorted a classroom bully to the head teacher of his primary school, the pupil alleged that he had used excessive force.
Drzewiecki was ordered home from St Mary's Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent immediately.
A police investigation was dropped, but Drzewiecki was sacked six months later in June 2007, following a disciplinary hearing.
Drzewiecki won compensation, but later said the incident made it "extremely difficult for him to work again as a primary teacher.