I WANT TO SEE HIM IN JAIL AND ASK WHY?

PARACHUTE MURDER PLOT WIFE

times he’s accused of trying to kill me so when, physically, did he manage to do those things? “I never felt scared or threatened. He’d been unfaithful and had issues with money, but that’s not murder. “Yes, our relationship might have been breaking down. But our daughter was his world – and to kill me would really damage her.” Asked if she is in denial, Victoria adds: “I don’t know. I just don’t really want to cope with it. I’ve got enough to deal with at the moment. “Maybe I will in the future, maybe I won’t. We gave him a good family environment. We had two children. “People said to me in the past, ‘if he’s found guilty are you going to agree or assent to the fact that he’s guilty?’ I’m still stuck in the middle. I don’t think anyone knows what happened apart from him.”

Victoria says a divorce is inevitable and her focus is now on their daughter, six, and three-year-old son.

The children have not seen their father – who was married before and has four other children – since he was charged. And Victoria has not spoken to him since his arrest back in 2015.

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She goes on: “That’s what upsets me and hurts me more than anything – the effect on the children. You want your children to grow up untainted.”

Victoria, originally from Edinburgh, had left the Army and was an MoD physiotherapist when she met Cilliers.

He was in the Royal Army Physical Training Corps and she treated him for a skiing injury.

Telling how she was attracted to his eyes and “alpha male” personality, she says: “It picked up speed quickly. He is a very passionate, intense individual – he goes 100 per cent and for the first few years I was his passion.” Having suffered a miscarriage in the early months of their relationship, both were “thrilled” when Victoria fell pregnant with their daughter five weeks before their wedding in Cilliers’ native South Africa in 2011.

Victoria adds: “Our marriage was not toxic and troubled in those early days. I never had the sense family life was not enough for him, or that he was chafing against it.”

But cracks began to emerge in 2015 after she fell pregnant with their son.

Cilliers went on an Army skiing holiday and came back “a completely different person”. Unbeknown to Victoria, he had contacted skydiving instructor Stefanie on dating app Tinder. It would emerge in court that he was also secretly sleeping with his first wife Carly Cilliers, 37, and messaging prostitutes. He reportedly offered £100 if he could film them having unprotected sex. Victoria had no idea about the scale of his deception. She goes on: “I knew there was stuff – other women on chat sites he contacted and I had seen messages on his laptop. “I also knew he had met up with women and I was planning on confronting him. But you have to fight your battles at the right time and, being heavily pregnant, it wasn’t the