Joy for miracle mum who survived 3,000ft fall after husband tampered with parachute

Victoria Cilliers dodged decease aft Emile Cilliers tampered with state pipes astatine their location successful Amesbury, Wiltshire and past sliced isolated her parachute rigging earlier a skydive

A mum who survived a 3,000ft fall aft her hubby tampered with her parachute has remarried - to different skydiving enthusiast.

Victoria Cilliers, 48, wed Simon Goodman astatine a registry bureau past weekend, astir 10 years aft dodging death. Her erstwhile hubby tried to termination her by firstly tampering with state pipes astatine their location and past by slicing isolated her parachute rigging. Emile Cilliers was recovered blameworthy of 2 counts of attempted murder and a 3rd complaint of recklessly endangering life, and received a minimum 18-year sentence.

Since then, mum-of-two Victoria met Simon - a erstwhile Royal Marine - astatine the aforesaid Wiltshire parachute nine wherever her erstwhile hubby launched his wicked plot. It is believed they started dating successful 2018 and tied the knot astatine a low-key reception, attended by the couple's closest friends and household members, connected the weekend.

One person said: "It was a close-knit occasion, conscionable precise amusive and nary fuss. Vicki has been done truthful much. She deserves this happiness much than anyone I know."

Simon, who is primitively from Somerset, served successful the Royal Marines for 30 years earlier retiring from the military. This is the 53-year-old's archetypal marriage, it is understood. According to his LinkedIn profile, helium is present an apprentice paramedic with South West Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust.

Victoria, who suffered a breached pelvis and 4 fractures of her spine successful the autumn successful April 2015, was subsequently a cardinal witnesser successful her ex-husband's trial, Daily Mail reports. Channel 4's three-part serial The Fall: Skydive Murder Plot dramatised Victoria's singular ordeal.

Speaking previously, the mum described her caller spouse arsenic "her rock", saying: "I effort not to trust connected him excessively overmuch emotionally but practically he's brilliant. He's been alert of everything close from the start. I don't deliberation I could person dated idiosyncratic who didn't know. The thought of explaining my past would person been excessively much. We person a akin ellipse of friends and I've known him for years, which is the lone mode it would person worked due to the fact that of spot issues."

The interrogation successful 2020 came 2 years aft Cilliers was sentenced for 2 counts of attempted execution and a 3rd complaint of recklessly endangering life. Sentencing the antheral astatine Winchester Crown Court, Mr Justice Sweeney said: "This was wicked offending of utmost gravity."