EXCLUSIVE EYES BRIMMING WITH TEARS, VICTIM OF SKYDIVE LOTHARIO GIVES HER ASTONISHING FIRST INTERVIEW

A COURT may have found Emile Cilliers guilty of trying to murder his skydiving wife Vicky by cutting the cords of her parachute – but the wronged woman who fell 4,000ft to earth and lived still hasn’t reached a verdict of her own.

‘Yes I’m hurt and angry,’ she tells The Mail on Sunday. ‘But can I see Emile as capable of murder? No.’

In a startling exclusive interview – during which Vicky, a 42-year-old physiotherapist, lost the composure which has seen her through two dramatic trials – she reveals:

She has no immediate plans to divorce her husband;

She has spent the past three years telling her two children their daddy has gone away for work;

She had a sixth sense telling her not to jump the day after Cilliers sabotaged her parachute but ignored it;

She wants to visit her husband in prison to confront him face to face, asking, ‘What the hell? Why? Why is this all happening?’

‘Perhaps I’ll parachute in,’ she jokes, showing the stubbornness and strength of character that saw her first survive that terrible freefall and then find herself a hostile witness for a prosecution which in her words ‘had no smoking gun’.

She accepts her husband was a serial philanderer and a skilled liar, that he had a sordid appetite for sex with swingers and prostitutes

‘I felt humiliated and bullied in the courtroom’

and that he had pressing debts. She knows he wanted to leave her to start a new life with his blonde mistress and that a life insurance payout would have helped fund it.

But the Scot still cannot bring herself to believe he was willing to kill her in such a cold-hearted, premeditated way and leave their daughter, now six, and son, now three, motherless.

‘It’s hard to comprehend that someone you are married to and have children with would be capable of that,’ she says.

It’s an outcome stunningly at odds with the overwhelming evidence of his guilt and one which seems to have more to do with Vicky’s sense of pride and self-preservation – and her need to protect her children – than any doubt that justice has been done.

The case was revealed by the MoS in May 2015, but this is Vicky’s first interview.

‘My family, friends, everyone seems to think they know more than I do,’ says the former Edinburgh Academy pupil who was born in Haddington, East Lothian. ‘They see different evidence to me.’

Vicky is the first child of Michael Kilby, a retired computer manager, and his wife Veronica, a nurse who died of cancer in 1992 when Victoria was 17.

Her father remarried three years later to Ann, a