The Skydiver Whose Husband Tried to Kill Her By Tampering With Her Parachute Reveals He is Still Pursuing Her From Jail – Even As She Remarries
I’m not anti-marriage, but when I see news stories like the following every so often, I have to say that my fellow Conservatives definitely over-sell marriage and any of its benefits.
April 13, 2024
by Sarah Oliver
The woman whose husband tried to murder her by cutting her parachute cords ahead of a skydive is set to marry again – to another skydiver.
Vicky Cilliers, 48, will get married later this year, with her daughter, 11, as a bridesmaid, in front of the family and friends who supported her in the horrific aftermath of her 3,000ft fall to earth.
Her fiance is a 53-year-old former Marine, now training to be a paramedic, who got down on one knee during a romantic meal in Edinburgh last summer. Vicky has chosen not to name him but says he was at Netheravon airbase, Wiltshire, on Easter Sunday 2015 when her ex-husband, Army Sergeant Emile Cilliers, tried to kill her.
Cilliers, serving life in prison, planned to start a new life with his Austrian mistress using a £120,000 life-insurance payout following Vicky’s death.
Yet even as the courageous mother-of-two tries to build a new future, she reveals Cilliers is still trying to control her from behind bars, launching a court action seeking tens of thousands of pounds of equity from the family home in Amesbury, Wiltshire.
‘He has taken me to court for a share of the house – that’s all he is interested in – he still sees me as his cash cow,’ says Vicky. ‘He’s still trying to control the narrative from prison. The divorce took so long and was so draining I just stopped there. I didn’t get a settlement in regards to the children’s arrangements or my finances. I just assumed, under the circumstances, it would never be an issue.’
Vicky is also terrified that if anything were to happen to her, Cilliers, a former Army physical training instructor, would have increased parental rights over their children, so she is returning to court on the eve of her wedding in a bid to finally escape him.
They met when Cilliers was referred to Vicky for rehab treatment after a skiing injury. They began dating in 2010 and married in his native South Africa in 2011. She had no clue – as would later emerge – that he was a sex addict and compulsive spender who was deeply in debt, and a user of sex clubs, prostitutes and online dating sites.
In March 2015 he attempted to kill Vicky by tampering with a gas pipe at the family home. When that plan failed, he landed on the idea of a parachute jump ‘accident’.
… Three weeks later her husband was charged with attempted murder, accused of sabotaging her parachute rig to make her death look like a freak accident. …
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