Army sergeant 'removed parachute parts in bid to kill wife'

An navy sergeant attempted to kill his spouse with the aid of getting rid of parts of her parachute, inflicting her to spin hundreds of ft to the floor, a court docket has heard.
Emile cilliers, 37, is accused of  counts of attempted homicide of his former spouse, victoria cilliers who survived the jump on five april 2015.
Winchester crown court heard ms cilliers suffered multiple injuries.
Mr cilliers, who denies all prices, desired to depart his spouse for a lover he had met on tinder, prosecutors stated.
It is also claimed that just days before the soar, on 29 march 2015, the defendant attempted to kill ms cilliers, 40, with the aid of deliberately inflicting a fuel leak inside the circle of relatives home while he stayed away.
The jury turned into told the royal army physical schooling corps officer lied to his lover, stefanie glover, that he became leaving his military officer wife due to the fact she became having an affair and he changed into no longer the father of considered one of their youngsters.
Mr cilliers, changed into also having an affair with his ex-spouse, carly cilliers, the courtroom heard.
Prosecutor michael bowes quality controls said mr cilliers, who become based totally at aldershot, hampshire, had money owed of £22,000 and believed he could acquire a £one hundred twenty,000 lifestyles insurance payout on his wife's death.
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Emile cilliers made up lies about his wife having an affair, the court heard
Mr bowes quality controls, said victoria cilliers was a tremendously skilled parachutist and instructor but when she jumped out of the plane four,000ft (1,200m) above netheravon airfield in wiltshire "each her primary parachute and her reserve parachute failed".
"the ones attending on the scene predicted to find her dead, despite the fact that she turned into badly injured, nearly miraculously she survived the autumn.
"the ones at the scene straight away realised that some thing was seriously incorrect together with her reserve parachute,  vital portions of equipment which fasten the parachute harness have been missing," he said.
He brought that on the time of the murder tries, mr cilliers become leaving his wife and treated her with "callousness and contempt".
Mr bowes instructed the jury that within hours of the failed try to gasoline his wife at home and "in spite of his entire disinterest" in her "he recommended that she would possibly like to go parachuting the following weekend".
The 0.33 allegation, which the 37-year-antique also denies, is damaging a gasoline fitting, reckless to endangerment of existence.
The trial maintains.