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Emile Cilliers trial: Accused 'texted lover as wife in surgery' | Emile Cilliers trial: Accused 'texted lover as wife in surgery' |
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An Army sergeant accused of tampering with his wife's parachute contacted his lover as his spouse underwent surgery after a 4,000ft fall, a court was told. | |
Jurors were read messages sent between Emile Cilliers and Stefanie Goller in the hours after Victoria Cilliers' fall at a Wiltshire airfield in 2015. | |
In one, Winchester Crown Court heard, the defendant asked Ms Goller to clean for him in the nude. | |
Mr Cilliers, 37, denies attempting to murder his former Army officer wife. | Mr Cilliers, 37, denies attempting to murder his former Army officer wife. |
'Naked cooking' | |
In another message, the army fitness instructor told Ms Goller he would repay her services with "hugs and kisses", the court was told. | In another message, the army fitness instructor told Ms Goller he would repay her services with "hugs and kisses", the court was told. |
She replied: "Haha, I like naked cooking ; )" | |
The court was read WhatsApp messages the lovers exchanged after Mrs Cilliers, 40, was hurt in a jump with the Army Parachute Association ) at Netheravon, Wiltshire, on Easter Sunday, 2015. | |
After telling Ms Goller that his wife was undergoing surgery, Mr Cilliers, of the Aldershot-based Royal Army Physical Training Corps, wrote: "One day we might have a family of our own." | |
Prosecutors allege Mr Cilliers twisted the lines of his wife's main parachute and removed two slinks - which attach lines to the harness from a reserve chute - the day before her jump. | |
He is also accused of a third charge of damaging a gas valve at their home a few days earlier, in the second allegation that he attempted to kill his wife. | |
Mr Cilliers denies all three charges and the trial continues. |