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Parachute trial: Wife 'asked did you try to bump me off?' Parachute trial: Wife 'asked did you try to bump me off?'
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The wife of an Army sergeant accused of tampering with her parachute told police she asked her husband "did you try to bump me off?", a court heard.The wife of an Army sergeant accused of tampering with her parachute told police she asked her husband "did you try to bump me off?", a court heard.
Victoria Cilliers, 40, suffered multiple injuries in a 4,000ft fall when her parachute failed, in 2015. Victoria Cilliers also told officers the skydive in which she suffered multiple injuries in a 4,000ft fall in April 2015 would be her last.
Emile Cilliers, 37, denies attempting to murder his former Army officer wife. Emile Cilliers, 37, denies attempting to murder his former Army officer wife,
The Winchester Crown Court jury was shown a police interview in which his wife said the "tongue in cheek" remark followed a gas leak at their home. At Winchester Crown Court, he also denies damaging a gas valve, recklessly endanger life.
Mr Cilliers also denies a second attempted murder charge and a third charge of tampering with a gas fitting at their home in Amesbury, Wiltshire, on 30 March 2015. The jury was shown a number of police interviews, during one of which Mrs Cilliers, 40, said she sent the "tongue in cheek" remark in a text message to her husband, following the gas leak at their home.
'Gunning for husband'
In a later interview, Mrs Cilliers told officers she had been angry after discovering her husband was having an affair.
She said the "red mist came down" and she "was gunning for [her husband] in the interview" and wanted to paint a "bad picture" of him in her testimony.
However, when asked by a detective if anything she had said was untrue, she said: "I don't think I lied".
Mrs Cilliers also said that before her near-fatal fall at Netheravon Airfield, in Wiltshire, the parachute jump "probably was going to be my last jump".
The Army fitness instructor told detectives going back to skydiving after becoming a mother was a "mental battle" and she had "lost confidence".
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.
During the police interviews, Mrs Cilliers added she "could not categorically say" the main parachute was malfunctioning.
She said she agreed with others when they suggested the reason the main parachute failed was as a result of the lines being twisted during packing, because she was "embarrassed".
"I was quite embarrassed to admit I potentially cut away a reasonable parachute, but I just completely lost confidence," she told the interviewing officers.
Mrs Cilliers only just survived the fall during which she suffered broken vertebrae, ribs and pelvis.
Mr Cilliers denies two counts of attempted murder and one of criminal damage recklessly endangering life.
The case continues.