Chute trial hubby ‘asked lover to clean in the nude’
Jury told of pair’s messages
A SOLDIER accused of trying to kill his wife by sabotaging her parachute asked his lover to be his naked cleaner, a court heard.
Emile Cilliers told Stefanie Goller he’d repay her with “hugs and kisses” after revealing his Scots wife Victoria was in hospital with a broken spine and pelvis and broken ribs, his trial was told.
Winchester Crown Court was read messages the lovers exchanged after Victoria was hurt in a jump at Netheravon, Wiltshire, on Easter Sunday, April 5, 2015.
After telling Stefanie his East Lothian-born wife was having surgery, Cilliers wrote: “Will you be my cleaner? I only like nude house cleaners.”
She replied: “Haha I like naked cooking ;)”
The prosecution claim Cilliers tampered with his wife’s parachute on the day before her jump.
Cilliers denies two charges of attempted murder and a third of damaging a gas valve at their home a few days before the jump.
The court was read messages from Victoria describing her “joking” fears that the defendant had tried to kill her by tampering with the gas fitting at their home.
On March 30, 2015, she wrote: “Did you alter the gas lever into the cooker. Smell gas in the cupboard this am.”
Cilliers replied he hadn’t before Victoria told him of “an article I read in a mag... True life reader stories. My husband tried to kill me.”
The trial continues
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