GUILTY Uk - Emile Cilliers Accused Of Tampering W/ Wife's Parachute, Wiltshire, 5 April 2015

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Robert Camps, assistant secretary the Army Parachute Association at Netheravon, Wilts, went to perform CPR on Mrs Cilliers, she opened her eyes and mumbled 'what is happening'.

[..]

Mr Camps told the court he called Cilliers to tell him of Mrs Cilliers' accident.
He said: "I called Emile on his mobile. I was in the manifest hut.
"Once Emile answered I said 'Emile it's Rob from the parachute centre. Do not panic but Vicky has had a hard landing. The air ambulance has taken her to hospital. Do not panic as far as I am aware it is nothing life threatening.'
"He did not intially say anything at all. The line went quiet."

[..]


Paul Cain, chairman of the Army Parachute Association at Netheravon and a brigadier with the Royal Army Medical Corp, attended to Mrs Cilliers before the air ambulance arrived.
He said: "When I arrived, Vicky Cilliers, although I didn't know it was her at the time, was lying on her back 5-10 feet from the edge of the road with some parachute lines around her and a few people were around.

[..]

Mr Cain added: "She was still in part attached to her parachute. I initially started treating her then Kate Bletheyn arrived and she took control.
"We tried to keep her warm. There was a real danger she was going into shock and we wanted to prevent that. I didn't cut anything away and nobody else did as far as I am aware."

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/47061...nd-allegedly-tampered-with-parachute-on-jump/


 
[..] The jury at Winchester Crown Court had asked if they could be shown a demonstration of how this might be done in the tight space of the toilets, having visited Netheravon last week.Mark Bayada, the Army Parachute Association (APA) chief instructor at Netheravon, an expert witness for the prosecution, carried out the filmed demonstration using two different parachutes, the court heard.


He used one which was the same size (149sq ft) as that used by Mrs Cilliers on her near-fatal jump but also another slightly larger parachute (170sq ft) because the container for the smaller one was a newer model which was slightly different to the one she used.
Mr Bayada completed the sabotage of the larger one in five minutes and 15 seconds and the smaller one in five minutes and five seconds.

More to read at link, plus video.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ws-sergeant-tampered-chute.html#ixzz4vt02Lodc


 
It just said on BBC radio news that the judge has instructed the jury that the slinks were deliberately removed, and no other possible explanation exists as to them being missing.

(Or words to that effect.)

Sorry, no link.
 
^^^Can't find it in print, it's about 1h3m15s on iPlayer.
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Today, in a ruling agreed with by the prosecution and the defence the judge, Mr Justice Sweeney, told the jury that the evidence heard in court so far had now shown that the two nylon ties, known as slinks, on Mrs Cillier's reserve chute must have been deliberately removed or disconnected.

He said that other possible explanations for why the slinks were missing, such as breaking, falling off or not being put on when the chute was packed, can now be ruled out.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b097ygw1#play
 
So the parties have agreed that it was sabotaged. Very interesting, thanks LB.

Now the jury only has to decide if it was EC who did it, or someone else - not knowing who would use the sabotaged parachute. How likely is that? With the leaking gas valve only days before, and the mistress viewed in relation to his 'treat' parachute jump for Vicky , it has to be a slam dunk, surely. Over half the work has been done for the jury.
 
I'm not getting anything for this trial in the news or on lawpages for today or last Friday.

Maybe it's been adjourned for the school half term week.

I find it odd that the BBC report didn't appear anywhere in the print media. How intriguing, has it been adjourned for another reason perhaps? Is he going to change his plea? My imagination is working overtime.
 
Ah, I spoke too soon. They must have overlooked updating lawpages.

[FONT=&quot]A BRITISH soldier accused of trying to kill his wife by sabotaging her parachute asked his lover to be his naked cleaner while his spouse was undergoing surgery for injuries suffered in the fall, a court heard.

[..]

[/FONT][FONT=&quot]In one message he says: "I will sacrifice and give up so much for you" and in another, "From April onwards I can do random and spontaneous...".

http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/n...d_messages_to_lover_as_wife_had_surgery__39_/

more to read at link.[/FONT]
 
The court heard that around three months before the incident Cilliers and Miss Goller had gone for a weekend away together in the Czech Republic.

Around a month later Mrs Cilliers messaged her husband saying she felt he was 'trying to push her away'.

Mrs Cilliers wrote: 'I have loved u (sic) more each year. Feels like you keep trying to push me away until I jump ship.

'But I can't. I love you too much. It feels just now that you would be happier without me.'

Texts around the same time revealed Cilliers was sending Miss Goller poems.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...xts-lover-trying-kill-wife.html#ixzz4wMDMKoSn


 
Having re-read what the defence counsel put to the witness the other day, about Vicky making no effort, and having agreed that the chutes were sabotaged, I believe they are going to try to say she was suicidal and sabotaged them herself. Post natal depression possibly - the baby was only 2 months old. Also her texts showed she was concerned about her marriage - with good cause as we have seen.

I hope she gives evidence.
 
I hope so too. The bloke sounds like a total slime ball full stop.
 
I watched a true crime video the other night about a young sky diver who died, main and reserve parachute cords completely cut. They couldn't determine whether it was murder or suicide - no one who knew him said he was suicidal and there was video of him in the plane larking about with his mates. The question they didn't answer in my mind was why he would have tried to deploy both chutes (pulled on the release mechanisms) if he knew he'd already cut them.
 
Yes, I’ve watched that before. It’s terrifying that it was never solved.
 
AN ARMY sergeant who allegedly plotted to kill his wife using a tampered gas valve and sabotaged parachute had pliers that matched marks on a vital nut, a court heard.
Sgt Emile Cilliers, 37, claimed to have tightened the valve with the tool but a forensic scientist told the jury today that the pliers were used in a loosening motion.

Mark Kearsley, who specialises in impressions left by work tools, said marks left on the top nut of a gas isolation valve matched the mole grips used by the soldier.

Cilliers claims he later returned home that day - March 30, 2015 - but couldn't tighten the valve, yet today the court heard a gas engineer was called to fix the leak which only required a quarter turn to tighten it.


Gas engineer Michael Osborne was called to the Cilliers' home in Amesbury on March 30, 2015, at around 6pm following the leak.
After fixing the leak, Mr Osborne told the court Cilliers asked him if vibrations from building work across the road could have loosened the nut and caused the gas leak, something he believed was "highly unlikely".

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4757285/emile-victoria-cilliers-parachute-murder-valve-pliers/
 
Jurors were told an engineer called to check the leak found a loose nut on a gas isolation valve in a cupboard next to the oven. Dried blood was also found on the pipe, which the court has heard matched that of Mr Cilliers.
They were shown a set of pliers which prosecutors claim were used to loosen the nut. Emile Cillers said he used the pliers to tighten it but had been unable to do so because it was too tight.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-41737936
 
This case seems too far fetched to be believed but he surely is guilty, right? I can’t think of any other explanation, though I think you’re right that the defence will suggest suicide. It’s all so audacious though, did he think that these things weren’t investigated?
 
So, the defence will claim that Victoria Cilliers

loosened the gas valve,
extracted his blood and saved it to plant on the valve,
changed her mind and aired the kitchen,
called a gas engineer to inspect the problem,
texted EC to ask if he was trying to kill her to frame him for murder in her abandoned suicide plan,
sent him a subliminal message asking for a parachute jump so that she could commit suicide
tricked him into taking her kit into the toilets and not putting it back in the store afterwards
sabotaged both chutes herself but then tried to deploy them


NO CHANCE
 
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