A man has been charged with attempted murder after his wife’s main parachute failed to open in a 4,000ft jump, police said on Tuesday. Sgt Emile Cilliers, 36, an army fitness instructor, is accused of two counts of the attempted murder of his wife, Victoria, 40. Victoria Cilliers suffered serious injuries including multiple broken bones after plummeting 4,000ft to the ground during a jump at Netheravon airfield on Salisbury Plain on 5 April, which was Easter Sunday, last year. At the time Wiltshire police said Victoria Cillier’s main parachute failed and her reserve canopy deployed only partially, which slowed her descent, but she still spent three weeks in Southampton hospital. Emile Cilliers was questioned the following day and arrested on suspicion of attempted murder the following month.

Source: The Guardian September 13, 2016 16:12 UTC