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    Who is Victoria Cilliers and how did she survive parachute murder plot? Shocking story behind Ch4’s The Fall

    by Emma Guinness Jun 12, 2024 4 minutes
    Source: Storyfilms TV/Channel 4

    A new Channel 4 documentary The Fall: Skydive Murder Plot has laid bare the miraculous survival story of Victoria Cilliers, whose husband Emile tried to murder her by cutting her parachute and its reserve.

    Following the attempted murder, Emile’s web of lies and coercive behaviour was exposed, eventually culminating in a minimum 18-year prison sentence for attempted murder in 2018.

    But who exactly is Victoria and why did her now ex-husband try to take her life in 2015?

    Who is Victoria Cilliers?

    Victoria, a physiotherapist who served in the army and became a captain, now 48, she first met Emile, 44, an army sergeant, in 2010.

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