{"id":141598,"date":"2018-06-15T11:29:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T11:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/parachute-murder-bid-emile-cilliers-jailed-for-life\/"},"modified":"2018-06-15T11:29:49","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T11:29:49","slug":"parachute-murder-bid-emile-cilliers-jailed-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/parachute-murder-bid-emile-cilliers-jailed-for-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Parachute murder bid: Emile Cilliers jailed for life"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Victoria Cilliers and Sgt Emile Cilliers\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/12C80\/production\/_91182967_mediaitem91182966.jpg\"\/><figcaption>Image caption                                      Victoria Cilliers almost died in the 2015 parachute jump                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">An Army sergeant has been jailed for life for trying to murder his wife by sabotaging her parachute.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria Cilliers, 41, survived a 4,000ft (1,220m) fall at Netheravon airfield, Wiltshire, in April 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Emile Cilliers, 38, of the Royal Army Physical Training Corps, also tried to kill her by causing a gas leak at the family home.<\/p>\n<p>At Winchester Crown Court, Cilliers was told he would have to serve a minimum of 18 years.<\/p>\n<p>In sentencing, Mr Justice Sweeney told Cilliers he was &quot;of quite exceptional callousness and a person who would stop at nothing to gratify your own desires&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>He described the evidence as &quot;overwhelming&quot; and said Cilliers had three motives.<\/p>\n<p>They were the money he thought he would receive in life insurance, the concern that his wife - a senior officer - could ruin his Army career, and because it would clear the way for a new life with another woman.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;You continued to pursue your selfish financial, emotional, and sexual desires,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image caption Victoria Cilliers almost died in the 2015 parachute jump An Army sergeant has been jailed for life for trying to murder his wife by sabotaging her parachute. Victoria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}