Sergeant accused of sabotaging wife’s parachute faces court

An Army sergeant accused of trying to kill his wife by tampering with her parachute appeared at the Old Bailey today (mon). Emile Cilliers, 37, faces a retrial next month for twice attempting to murder Victoria Cilliers, 40. Cilliers is said to have sabotaged his wife’s parachute before it failed to deploy when she made the jump in Wiltshire in 2015. Mrs Cilliers, an experienced army physiotherapist and parachute instructor, suffered near-fatal injuries after the 4,000ft dive on the Easter…