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Sgt Emile Cilliers charged over wife's parachute fall | |
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An Army sergeant has been charged with two counts of attempted murder after his wife's parachute failed to open during a skydive. | |
Sgt Emile Cilliers, 36, of Amesbury, Wiltshire, was arrested after his wife Victoria fell 4,000ft (1,219m) on 5 April 2015. | |
Mr Cilliers faces a further charge of criminal damage reckless to the endangerment of life of the couple's two children. | |
He has been released on bail. | |
He will appear in Salisbury Crown Court in October. | |
Victoria Cilliers suffered "multiple serious injuries" after falling to the ground during a routine jump near Netheravon Airfield over Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire on 5 April. | |
Ian Harris, from the Crown Prosecution Service Wessex, said: "The CPS has today authorised the police to charge Emile Cilliers with two charges of attempting to murder his wife, Victoria Cilliers, and with a further charge of criminal damage reckless to the endangerment of the lives of their two children." | |
The two attempted murder charges relate to different dates - one between 28 March and 31 March 2015 at an undisclosed address in Wiltshire and the other between 3 April and 6 April 2015 at Netheravon. | |
The third charge relates to allegations he damaged a domestic gas fitting belonging to Mrs Cilliers, between 28 March and 321 March at Amesbury thus endangering the children's life. |