Army hubby ‘didn’t query chute failure’

Tasks... who can do what Real reason our mollycoddled kids never learn anything useful

AN Army sergeant accused of trying to kill his wife by sabotaging her parachute did not ask a single question about her fall at a meeting the following day, a court has heard.

Emile Cilliers, 38, met Mark Bayada, in charge of Netheravon airfield, Wilts, the day after Victoria, 42, plunged 4.000ft suffering major injuries in 2015.

Mr Bayada, said he told Mr Cilliers he had found vital links had been removed in her parachute.

He told Winchester crown court: “I was apprehensive and expecting questions. It was club equipment [Victoria used].

“He [Cilliers] was looking at the ground with hardly any response at all.”

Cilliers, of Aldershot, Hants, denies attempted murder. The trial goes on. Confident in each skill LAST summer holidays I packed off my son (then 13) to his grandma and grandad for a few days with a couple of pairs of clean pants and a mission, ‘Learn Something Useful’.

Leaving nothing to chance I’d drawn up a list of all the things I was certain I could do by his age but which somehow in the too speedy, yet too easy, flow of modern life I’d never got round to teaching him.

Wire a plug, change a tyre, mow the lawn and iron a shirt were all on the list. He returned having achieved about half of the points.

He abandoned the challenges before ‘sewing on a button’ and there was no way my mum was letting him ‘hang a picture’ on her new Anaglypta. “How was it?”, I asked on his return home. “Easy,“he said with all the 13-year-old cockiness of a 13-year-old.

“But to be honest.. what’s the point? I’ve got you to do all that stuff.”

And that, mums and dads, is how we created this whole sorry state...

TRIAL Emile with Victoria