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I'm scratching my head.The case is very odd. I can’t think of another example of attempted murder where the victim seems quite ambivalent about the charge. It must be a mind bender for the legal teams.
He said it was a 'coincidence' that he suggested Victoria go skydiving for the first time in months just days after he allegedly tried to cause an explosion at their home.
He also told police he 'doesn't know' how blood appeared by the gas valve at their home in Amesbury, Wilts.
When asked about his wife's 'joke' text messages when she suggested he was 'trying to bump her off', he said: 'She's a grown woman.
'I don't know why a grown woman would come out with things like that.'
The court heard how in police interviews, Cilliers realised 'how much' he loved his wife and described his affair with Ms Goller as a 'mistake'.
In messages to Miss Goller, also a skydiving instructor like Mrs Cilliers, the defendant told her he 'wanted to spend time with my family and wife'.
He sounds like a total leech.
2 children by the time he's 20 - what happened to the mother of those two ? was she left behind in SA to take care of them ?
And then leaves wife number one to take care of child 3 and 4 presumably ? if he had so many debts , I doubt there was any child maintenance being paid.
I feel very sorry for Victoria. From the, admittedly very brief, picture I have of her from the news reports, she sounds as though she has low self esteem and could be a factor in her having ended up with this person. ( I could substitute plenty of better words than person, but am keepin it polite ). Agreeing to marriage after one year whilst knowing he has these debts ( which he doesn't seem to make any attempt to deal with ) is rather sad. And then discovering that he is father of 4, not 2, just before the wedding.
All of that should have been enough to ring huge warning bells rather than go ahead and marry him.
I hope for a guilty verdict ( sounds 100% guilty to me ) and for her to be able to move on and have a better quality of life.