A man is being made to pay for his really evil action after he was found out to have tried to kill his own wife while intending to move in with another woman.
Cilliers (left, pictured at court; and right, with his wife) has pleaded not guilty to three charges
According to
Daily Mail UK, a court, today, heard that an Army sergeant tried to murder his wife by sabotaging her parachute before she jumped 4,000ft out of a plane, in a bid to get £120,000 from insurance after starting an affair.
Emile Cilliers, 37, of Aldershot, Hampshire had days earlier allegedly damaged a gas fitting in the home he shared with his wife Victoria Cilliers, 40, in an attempt to kill her after meeting Stefanie Goller on dating app Tinder.
Winchester Crown Court heard when that failed, he suggested his wife - an experienced parachutist and instructor - go parachuting the next weekend.
But when Victoria went to make the jump from the Cessna Caravan light aircraft, both her main and reserve parachute failed and she spun helplessly to the ground over Netheravon airfield on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire.
Victoria survived the 4,000ft fall but was seriously injured - being left withbroken ribs, a broken collarbone, a broken leg and spinal injuries - and spent three weeks in hospital.
Witnesses thought she had died and realised immediately that something was very wrong with her reserve parachute.
The court heard two vital pieces of equipment - strips of material known as slinks which connect the harness to the parachute - were missing and without these the kit would fail.
A police investigation widened and officers then discovered a gas valve fitting in a kitchen cupboard near the cooker at their home had been deliberately damaged.
The jury was told Cilliers, who serves with the Royal Army Physical Training Corps, had started an affair with Miss Goller after meeting her on Tinder.
In Whatsapp messages to her, he lied that Victoria, a physiotherapist who had previously served as an officer in the British Army, had given birth to a child that was not his but the result of an affair, the court was told.
The jury also heard that Cilliers was also involved in a sexual relationship with his ex-wife Carly Cillers.