Cheryl was one of six featured composers in Tete a Tete's opera project Family Matters (based on Beaumarchais’ third Figaro play The Guilty Mother) with a libretto by Olivier-Award winner Amanda Holden: workshops took place in Battersea Arts Centre in September 2003, with the final opera being staged throughout February 2004 at the Bridewell Theatre, followed by twelve performances around the country.
After having escaped from the hands of the Huguenots of La Rochelle, he was arrested on reaching England and thrown into Newgate, where he was imprisoned for six months, and was then transferred to Bridewell.