Bad boy Cecillon goes back to jail

– Marc Cecillon, the former French rugby captain who served seven years in prison for murdering his wife while drunk, has been ordered back behind bars after a night of drunk driving, violence and theft, legal sources said yesterday.

Known as the “Quiet Man” of French rugby, Cecillon captained the national side five times during a career that brought 46 caps in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

But problems with alcohol and depression followed his retirement. At a barbecue in 2004 he shot his wife Chantal five times in front of guests following an argument.

He was sentenced to 20 years but paroled in 2011.

Earlier this month a judge in Perpignan sentenced Cecillon, 59, to 12 months in jail, with six months suspended, after he assaulted a vineyard owner. –

Perpignan