One youth conviction can ruin your life...

longrunsthefox · February 10, 2009, 05:49:25 PM

It is so unfair how one mistake and keeps getting thrown up...

Man who killed parents as youth outed via TV reality show

Blue-eyed, curly-haired Cyril Jacquet was the perfect reality show participant. Young, attractive, outgoing and ambitious, he and his girlfriend, Paola Alberdi, were determined to win a new Spanish TV show called Around the World.

The show, on the Antena 3 channel, involves couples racing each other around the globe. It promised adventure, a €200,000 (£178,000) prize and, inevitably, fame.

Jacquet did not seem to realise, however, that fans of the show would inevitably start putting his name into their internet search engines and finding out a little bit more about him.

So it was that, on Sunday night, he returned from Venice and abandoned the show after programme-makers questioned him about internet rumours that as a 15-year-old he had murdered his mother and father.

"I will always hold my head high," Cyril said, before he and Paola waved a tear-filled goodbye.

"People change," he added.

Antena 3, which devoted part of the Sunday-night to Monday-morning show to the news, said it had no idea that one of its contestants was a parricide.

"The programme did not know," a presenter told viewers. "After we checked the facts of the case we brought them back to Spain to protect them from media attention."

In 1994, Jacquet killed his mother with three shots from his father's automatic pistol after she entered the family home. A few hours later, Jacquet used the remaining seven bullets for his father.

He eventually confessed to the double killing and served three years in a youth detention centre. Under Spanish law he has no criminal record since he was a minor at the time of the double killing.

Jacquet, now an airline cabin crew worker, blamed the media and "undesirable" people for his decision to abandon the show. "They don't let you leave the past behind," he complained. "I don't want to keep giving them the excuse to lynch me."

Paola, who said she had always known about her boyfriend's past, said: "It bothers me a lot that we have to go because someone wants to pour s**** on someone else's life. I know he is strong. If he has got to where he has, it is because he can handle anything."

magickingdom · February 10, 2009, 06:06:02 PM

what a dick, should rot in jail

longrunsthefox · February 10, 2009, 06:07:36 PM

Quote from: magickingdom on February 10, 2009, 06:06:02 PM
what a dick, should rot in jail

Who?!! Me or the Spanish kid!! $:-\$

magickingdom · February 10, 2009, 08:42:01 PM

Quote from: longrunsthefox on February 10, 2009, 06:07:36 PM
Quote from: magickingdom on February 10, 2009, 06:06:02 PM
what a dick, should rot in jail
Who?!! Me or the Spanish kid!! $:-\$

the spanish dude of course!!

Orior · February 10, 2009, 09:01:25 PM

I thought this was going to be about the beauty pageant entrant who got booted out cause she'd assaulted a girl a couple of years previously.

Stalin · February 10, 2009, 11:16:37 PM

Jesus it was only a minor indiscretion

Capt Pat · February 11, 2009, 01:38:49 AM

Quote from: longrunsthefox on February 10, 2009, 05:49:25 PM
It is so unfair how one mistake and keeps getting thrown up...

Man who killed parents as youth outed via TV reality show

Blue-eyed, curly-haired Cyril Jacquet was the perfect reality show participant. Young, attractive, outgoing and ambitious, he and his girlfriend, Paola Alberdi, were determined to win a new Spanish TV show called Around the World.

The show, on the Antena 3 channel, involves couples racing each other around the globe. It promised adventure, a €200,000 (£178,000) prize and, inevitably, fame.

Jacquet did not seem to realise, however, that fans of the show would inevitably start putting his name into their internet search engines and finding out a little bit more about him.

So it was that, on Sunday night, he returned from Venice and abandoned the show after programme-makers questioned him about internet rumours that as a 15-year-old he had murdered his mother and father.

"I will always hold my head high," Cyril said, before he and Paola waved a tear-filled goodbye.

"People change," he added.

Antena 3, which devoted part of the Sunday-night to Monday-morning show to the news, said it had no idea that one of its contestants was a parricide.

"The programme did not know," a presenter told viewers. "After we checked the facts of the case we brought them back to Spain to protect them from media attention."

In 1994, Jacquet killed his mother with three shots from his father's automatic pistol after she entered the family home. A few hours later, Jacquet used the remaining seven bullets for his father.

He eventually confessed to the double killing and served three years in a youth detention centre. Under Spanish law he has no criminal record since he was a minor at the time of the double killing.

Jacquet, now an airline cabin crew worker, blamed the media and "undesirable" people for his decision to abandon the show. "They don't let you leave the past behind," he complained. "I don't want to keep giving them the excuse to lynch me."

Paola, who said she had always known about her boyfriend's past, said: "It bothers me a lot that we have to go because someone wants to pour s**** on someone else's life. I know he is strong. If he has got to where he has, it is because he can handle anything."

Was the title of the topic sarcastic. I thought it was someone who vandalised a telephone box or got caught with a joint of marajuana. The guy killed his parents, now he may or may not have had good reason for that but he will never be allowed forget that and rightly so.

longrunsthefox · February 11, 2009, 10:05:11 AM

Quote from: Capt Pat on February 11, 2009, 01:38:49 AM
Quote from: longrunsthefox on February 10, 2009, 05:49:25 PM
It is so unfair how one mistake and keeps getting thrown up...

Man who killed parents as youth outed via TV reality show

Blue-eyed, curly-haired Cyril Jacquet was the perfect reality show participant. Young, attractive, outgoing and ambitious, he and his girlfriend, Paola Alberdi, were determined to win a new Spanish TV show called Around the World.

The show, on the Antena 3 channel, involves couples racing each other around the globe. It promised adventure, a €200,000 (£178,000) prize and, inevitably, fame.

Jacquet did not seem to realise, however, that fans of the show would inevitably start putting his name into their internet search engines and finding out a little bit more about him.

So it was that, on Sunday night, he returned from Venice and abandoned the show after programme-makers questioned him about internet rumours that as a 15-year-old he had murdered his mother and father.

"I will always hold my head high," Cyril said, before he and Paola waved a tear-filled goodbye.

"People change," he added.

Antena 3, which devoted part of the Sunday-night to Monday-morning show to the news, said it had no idea that one of its contestants was a parricide.

"The programme did not know," a presenter told viewers. "After we checked the facts of the case we brought them back to Spain to protect them from media attention."

In 1994, Jacquet killed his mother with three shots from his father's automatic pistol after she entered the family home. A few hours later, Jacquet used the remaining seven bullets for his father.

He eventually confessed to the double killing and served three years in a youth detention centre. Under Spanish law he has no criminal record since he was a minor at the time of the double killing.

Jacquet, now an airline cabin crew worker, blamed the media and "undesirable" people for his decision to abandon the show. "They don't let you leave the past behind," he complained. "I don't want to keep giving them the excuse to lynch me."

Paola, who said she had always known about her boyfriend's past, said: "It bothers me a lot that we have to go because someone wants to pour s**** on someone else's life. I know he is strong. If he has got to where he has, it is because he can handle anything."

Was the title of the topic sarcastic. I thought it was someone who vandalised a telephone box or got caught with a joint of marajuana. The guy killed his parents, now he may or may not have had good reason for that but he will never be allowed forget that and rightly so.

I think I'll leave you to figure that out

Cruncher · February 11, 2009, 10:17:03 AM

To be fair, the beauty contestant probably got more publicity about the assault than she would have as a model, Not exactly cindy crawford. $:-\$

longrunsthefox · February 11, 2009, 10:36:36 AM

Quote from: Cruncher on February 11, 2009, 10:17:03 AM
To be fair, the beauty contestant probably got more publicity about the assault than she would have as a model, Not exactly cindy crawford. $:-\$

She's not bad. You must get off with some beauties Brad

Cruncher · February 11, 2009, 10:59:40 AM

aye she might do well in a father ted lovely lady competion but IMO she should stick to the cage fighting!