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

[Moll]

Well, I wouldn't say I'm unconfused, but were there any defence witnesses for EC first time round? I thought not - in fact didn't you recently recall that, Alyce? So these are prosecution witnesses but are they being recalled by the defence?
EDIT No, I don't think so, see next post.

 

[Moll]

According to this
https://www.defence-barrister.co.uk...trial/#Prosecution-Witnesses-–-Re-examination,
the prosecution can recall witnesses to ask them about evidence the defence has cross-examined them about. That seems to be the last stage before the prosecution case is closed, and the defence case begins. Then we get the closing speeches.

 

[Tortoise]

Trial (Part Heard) - Defendant Sworn - 11:55

http://www.thelawpages.com/court-hearings-lists/Winchester-Crown-Court.php

 

[Alyce]

Thanks Moll - that makes sense re the recall of Prosecution witnesses - and yes, am sure last time the only defence witness was EC

 

[Alyce]

Trial (Part Heard) - Defendant Sworn - 11:55

http://www.thelawpages.com/court-hearings-lists/Winchester-Crown-Court.php

Here we go -

 

[Tortoise]

He said: 'I started having some financial issues [when I was with my first wife Carly]. We had taken some high interest loans out because my income was not sufficient to sustain us.

'I was finding it really hard to service the loans. I tried to maintain it the best I could but eventually ended up taking out more loans to cover the ones I already had.

'Carly and I came to an agreement that I would pay half the loans off. It was roughly around £2,000.

[...]

'Victoria spoke to me and she said if we wanted anything to happen between us then she would have to hand me over to another physio.

'I believe it was around my birthday in March 2010 when we became a little bit more (close) and decided we would give it a go.



'She taught me how to pack parachutes. I thought what am I going to do while Victoria is working?

[...]

'I was told I could join the Army because I am from a commonwealth country.

'In the first phase of training there were 36 trainees and I was awarded top recruit. It meant I could pick where I was first stationed.

'I decided to go to Plymouth, to 32 Commando, as I thought at that point I wanted to go somewhere like the SAS.

'But I decided when you have a family, being in the SAS isn't the right place to go.'

The Army sergeant moved on to the Royal Artillery, where he trained as a signaller, before joining the Physical Training Corps.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ls-jurors-taught-pack-them.html#ixzz5FaEeDBgH

 

[Alyce]

Trial (Part Heard) - Case adjourned until 14:00 - 12:59
Trial (Part Heard) - Witness Number 38 Continues - 14:09
Trial (Part Heard) - Case adjourned until 15:45 - 15:27
Trial (Part Heard) - Witness Number 38 Continues - 15:42

 

[Tortoise]

Jurors heard he had transferred £6,000 from his wife's bank account into his own without permission, and then told her the account details had been hacked.
He bought expensive sporting equipment, clothes for himself, holidays and, on one occasion, spent £6,500 at a garden centre.
Mr Cilliers also said he was a "very sexually active man" who "needs female company".

..


The court heard the equipment had never failed in this manner anywhere in the world.
Mr Cilliers is also alleged to have deliberately caused a gas leak at the family home in Amesbury.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-44131776

 

[Tortoise]

Details:Trial (Part Heard) - Witness Number 38 Continues - 09:34

http://www.thelawpages.com/court-hearings-lists/Winchester-Crown-Court.php

 

[Alyce]

Looks like EC's finished, on to Witness 39 now




Winchester 2
T20160267

emile stolz cilliers
Details:
Trial (Part Heard) - Witness Number 38 Continues - 10:32
Trial (Part Heard) - Case adjourned until 11:25 - 11:01
Trial (Part Heard) - Resume - 11:24
Trial (Part Heard) - Witness Number 39 Continues - 11:27

http://www.thelawpages.com/court-hearings-lists/Winchester-Crown-Court.php

 

[Tortoise]

That's weird. How could he have been cross-examined already?

ETA, I think that's probably a court error.

 

[Alyce]

Think you're right and they've just made an error with the number. It wouldn't say witness continues if witness 39 had just begun their testimony.

Plus, from the previous trial, there were no other witnesses for the defence, only EC.
Although I suppose they could have found another one this time round.

 

[Alyce]

Yep, does look like a typo

Court Serve have it down as Witness 38 continues


Court 2 T20160267

EMILE STOLZ CILLIERS

Trial (Part Heard) - Witness Number 38 Continues - 11:27

https://www.courtserve.net/services/faq/faq.php

 

[Alyce]

Ah, the Law Pages have tidied up the error

Trial (Part Heard) - Resume - 11:24
Trial (Part Heard) - Witness Number 39 Continues - 11:27
Trial (Part Heard) - Witness Number 38 Continues - 11:27


http://www.thelawpages.com/court-hearings-lists/Winchester-Crown-Court.php

 

[Alyce]

Trial (Part Heard) - Witness Number 38 Continues - 11:27

Trial (Part Heard) - Case adjourned until 14:05 - 13:02
Trial (Part Heard) - Witness Number 38 Continues - 14:10
Trial (Part Heard) - Case adjourned until 15:35 - 15:18
Trial (Part Heard) - Witness Number 38 Continues - 15:36

 

[Tortoise]

At Winchester Crown Court, defence barrister Elizabeth Marsh QC asked Mr Cilliers whether he had "harboured any wish to harm" his wife or children.
He replied: "No. Never. I would never do anything to harm any of them."


The army sergeant told the court he could not remember cutting his hand and had not touched the valve as he "really doesn't have any experience of gas".
He suggested to the jury that vibrations caused by nearby building work could have opened the valve.
Mr Cilliers left work early on the day of the gas leak and on his way home he sent Mrs Cilliers a text message to suggest they go parachuting the following weekend.

[more about infidelities]

But he said he had planned to stay with his wife until their newborn baby was six weeks old, when he would make a decision.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-44142584

 

[Alyce]

Mr Cilliers described how he went on an all-inclusive holiday in the Czech Republic with his girlfriend Stefanie Goller while Mrs Cilliers, then pregnant, was left at home.

Days after the birth of his second child with his wife, he arranged to go away for the weekend with a former lover called Wanda, although this "never materialised".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-44142584

 

[Tortoise]

By my calculations the gas leak was shortly after the baby was 6 weeks old.

 

[Alyce]

Elizabeth Marsh QC for the defence read out text messages in court which Emile Cilliers sent while he was upstairs in their home and "she was in labour" downstairs.

He asked her how far apart here contractions were, to which she replied "45 minutes apart," and invited him to come downstairs.

Mr Cilliers stayed upstairs ending messages to Ms Goller telling her he loved her.


https://www.forces.net/news/cilliers-trial-army-sergeant-texted-girlfriend-while-wife-was-labour

 

[Alyce]

By my calculations the gas leak was shortly after the baby was 6 weeks old.

Ah ha - I was just trying to work out how old the baby was - fits his deadline then.