Will you be my nude cleaner?

What soldier ‘asked mistress a day after trying to kill wife by tampering with parachute’

AN ARMY sergeant asked his mistress to be his ‘nude cleaner’ the day after allegedly trying to kill his wife by tampering with her skydiving parachute, a court heard.

As his wife lay in hospital, Emile Cilliers, 37, sent lewd texts to lover Stefanie Goller.

South African-born Cilliers is accused of trying to murder his wife Victoria, 40, by removing vital ‘slinks’ from her parachute before she went on a 4,000ft skydive.

Days earlier, he had attempted to murder the Army physiotherapist by tampering with a gas pipe to trigger an explosion at their home in Amesbury, Wiltshire, it is claimed.

Winchester Crown Court heard that Cilliers allegedly wanted to claim her £120,000 life insurance to pay off heavy debts.

Jurors were yesterday shown thousands of texts between Cilliers and Miss Goller, whom he met on dating app Tinder, in the months before the skydiving incident in April 2015 and in the days after. On the day of the fall he wrote: ‘Sorry Emile Cilliers with wife Victoria can’t talk right now. Vicky has had an accident.’ Later in the same conversation, as his wife was having surgery, he said: ‘What we have is far more special … One day we might have a family of our own.’

Miss Goller later said she was working as a cleaner, to which he said: ‘Will you be my cleaner? I only like nude cleaners.’ Miss Goller said, ‘I like naked cooking’, and he replied: ‘You’ll end up being distracted by me and burn the cooking.’

The night before the gas leak, Cilliers had sent Miss Goller texts fantasising about ‘the soft touch of your skin’ and ‘kissing your neck, strok- ing your body’. Half an hour earlier, he texted his ex-wife Carly, 38, with whom he was also having an affair, saying: ‘So tonight we f*** twice.’

Jurors were also shown exchanges between Cilliers and his wife. A few weeks after the accident, he wrote: ‘I will need money soon or I can’t do shopping. I have no money left.’

Texts also revealed their marriage problems in the months before.

After he returned from a trip to Austria in January, she wrote: ‘It was a massive blow to realise you came back a different person. You seemed so detached.’ Meanwhile Cilliers was texting Miss Goller about how he wanted to spend his life with her, the court heard.

In February, after Cilliers returned from a holiday with Miss Goller, his wife texted him: ‘Feels like you keep trying to push me away until I jump ship. But I can’t. I love you too much. It feels just now that you would be happier without me.’

Mrs Cilliers survived her fall thanks to a single thread on her parachute but broke her pelvis, ribs and vertebrae. Her husband denies two counts of attempted murder and one of reckless criminal damage.

The trial continues.