Parachute wife: I suspected my husband was in a secret sex club

AN ARMY sergeant accused of sabotaging his wife’s parachute to kill her had been in touch with a pop-up sex club, a court has heard.

Victoria Cilliers said her marriage was in trouble and she had suspected her husband of cheating in the run-up to a near fatal jump where her parachute failed.

Her husband Emile, of the Royal Army Physical Training Corps, is accused of her attempted murder by removing two slinks, which connect the harness to the canopy lines.

Mrs Cilliers told his trial at Winchester Crown Court that before the fall that left her badly injured on Easter Sunday 2015, she had suspicions that her husband was part of a sex club.

She said: “The messages from other women did not seem appropriate, old school friends, etc. Some comments just did not ring true, he was not wearing his ring, he was constantly on his phone. He used the laptop predominantly. Messages came up, chats with women saying he is going to visit them.

“There was something to do with the club, I cannot remember the name of it but essentially it’s a sex club that pops up in different places.”

The physiotherapist said her husband had treated her coldly after the fall and rarely visited her in hospital, despite being put on compassionate leave by the Army.

Cilliers denies two counts of attempted murder and a third charge of damaging a gas valve, recklessly endangering life. The trial continues.