A former naughty schoolboy expelled for giving teachers cakes spiked with laxatives has had the last laugh - and been appointed a chief inspector for schools.
Owen Evans was 16 when he was kicked out of his high school for his “chocolate-related incident”.
Mr Evans, now 52, admitted that as a teenager he thought it would be funny to make chocolate cornflake cakes for his teachers which he’d laced with laxatives.
He admitted his home-baking had explosive effects - and only 17 out of 40 teachers turned up in school the next day.
Mr Evans said his father gave him a talking to which he shook off “like water off a duck’s back”.
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But then he was expelled from his high school in Aberystwyth, West Wales - and was gutted at the “look of disappointment in my mother’s eyes.”
“Getting expelled was a massive kick up the bottom,” he said.
And Mr Evans will become head of Welsh education watchdog Estyn in January - the new chief inspector for education and training in Wales.
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Mr Evans has admitted he was lazy at school but then went to a further education college to finish his studies which he said “was the making of me”.
“If I didn’t turn up the teacher would ring my house and ask where I was and then pick me up.
"It was partly shame of being picked up that meant I started going,” he said.
