A soldier who tried to kill his wife in a skydive “accident” is bragging he could be out of jail in five years – and seeking love.
Sex addict Emile Cilliers was jailed in 2018 after his wife Victoria fell 4000ft to the ground when he tampered with her parachute canopy.
She survived but detectives discovered it was the second time former PT instructor Cilliers had tried to kill her in a bid to land £120,000 life insurance.
Despite being given life for attempted murder, Cilliers is bragging to pals that if he successfully appeals the length of sentence he could move to an open jail by 2026 and walk free two years later.
From his cell in HMP Full Sutton, he even claimed he wants to find someone to “love and trust unconditionally”.
In a letter, Cilliers, 40, wrote: “I am appealing both my sentence and conviction. We are hoping to reduce it to 20, meaning I serve 10, and I’ll be in open prison after eight, so in five years, as I have already done three years. We are very confident.
“If we get what we hope for, I will be in open prison in 2026 and out
in 2028.
“Worse case, and it won’t be, I’ll be in open prison in 2032ish and out in 2036 if I get my parole.”
He added: “I want to build a life with someone I can trust, someone who trusts in me, someone who I can love, someone who loves me, and I mean
in all respects, truly love and trust, unconditionally.”
Cilliers was jailed after a court heard he tangled the main canopy and took links from professional skydiving instructor Victoria’s reserve chute – causing her to fall to the ground.
Victoria fractured almost all her ribs, broke her pelvis and her right lung collapsed. She only survived thanks to the softness of the newly ploughed field she landed in.
It emerged Cilliers had also tried to kill Victoria, originally from East Lothian, in an explosion by damaging a gas fitting at their home in Amesbury, Wiltshire.
Last year, ex-Army captain and physiotherapist Victoria, 44, revealed
Cilliers had denied her a divorce.
She said: “I’m still married to him. I still have his name.
"I still feel shackled to him. I want to be able to move out of the house, to move on and restart my life completely, perhaps in another country.
“But I’m still here, in the marital home, and there are memories of him at every turn – in the paint colours, the curtains, the furniture we chose together.”
Cilliers was said to be £22,000 in debt and desperate to shack up with his Tinder love Stefanie Goller when he concocted the murder plots.
He has always refused to admit his guilt and, while revealing he is appealing, wrote: “I shall return.”
