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Parachute murder plot victim Victoria Cilliers MARRIES again – nine years after love rat husband tried to kill her
Victoria reportedly met Simon at the same parachute club where her former husband devised the murder plot
SKYDIVER Victoria Cilliers has remarried nine years after surviving a 4,000ft plummet when her love rat husband tried to kill her.
Victoria, 48, miraculously survived the fall in Wiltshire in 2015, suffering a smashed spine and broken pelvis, ribs, leg and collarbone.
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It was later revealed her husband Emile had carried out the extraordinary murder plot in a bid to cash in on a £120,000 life insurance payout.
He was after being found guilty of two counts of attempted murder.
Now the mum-of-two has found love again with a fellow skydiving enthusiast - Simon Goodman.
She tied the knot with the former Royal Marine last weekend, according to .
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Victoria also reportedly met him at the same Wiltshire parachute club where Emile devised the murder plot.
A friend told the news outlet: "It was a close-knit occasion, just very fun and no fuss.
";Vicki has been through so much. She deserves this happiness more than anyone I know."
Serial love rat Army sergeant Emile tried to kill Victoria to cash in on a £120,000 life insurance so he could clear mounting debts and start a new life with his Tinder lover.
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It emerged he had also previously tampered with a gas valve at their home in Amesbury, Wiltshire, days before her parachute plunge.
Originally from South Africa, Emile moved to the UK in the early Noughties.
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He met second wife Victoria, an Army physiotherapist, in 2009 while getting help with his knee at the treatment centre where she worked.
They married two years later in Cape Town. They have kids April, 13, and Ben, nine.
Emile owed money to payday loan lenders, former work colleagues and Victoria.
Victoria had leant him £19,000 and after helping himself to £6,000 from her savings account, Emile claimed her account had been hacked.
Flirted with interrogator
THE female detective who arrested Emile revealed how he tried to to flirt with her during his police interview, in an exclusive chat with The Sun.
A FEMALE detective has told how Emile brazenly tried to come on to her while she interrogated him during his police interview.
DS Maddy Hennah, from Wiltshire Police, told The Sun: "He was thinking he could win me over, but didn't realise who he was talking to.
"As a police officer, you understand when somebody is trying to win you round to their advantage.
"I'm there to do a job. If he thinks I'm going to be won over by a wry smile he's barking up the wrong tree. He realised that quite quickly."
After his behaviour turned sinister, she was told by her boss that she should never be alone with him.
Yet the detective recalled: "His bail conditions included having no contact with his wife, but he had the children's car seats in his car so I had to collect them from him.
"It wasn't what he said, but the way he spoke to me. He gave me goosebumps and I didn't like it.
"It's not often in life that men make you feel that. I have been there, seen it, done it. He did make me uncomfortable."
However, the bank traced the IP address used in the transaction back to the family's home computer.
Such was her concern about her husband's over-spending, she cut him out of her will in 2014, leaving all her money to their two children April and Ben.
Victoria became concerned when her once attentive and charming husband became cold and distant.
Desperately trying to salvage the marriage, she sent him numerous texts and emails when he was away.
In one message she wrote: "I feel like a failure as a wife."
Victoria was given hope their relationship was improving when her husband bought her the 2015 jump at Netheravon airfield as a gift.
But while in the air the experienced skydiver, who has completed more than 2,500 jumps, immediately knew something was wrong.
Her parachute failed to open and she plummeted 4,000ft, landing in a soft, recently ploughed field.
It later emerged her husband had tampered with the parachute.
Her story was told in Channel 4's The Fall: Skydive Murder Plot, which aired in May.
But one person was NOT surprised by the actions of callous Cilliers, 44, who was jailed for life in 2018 — his ex-partner Nicolene Shepherd. She has exclusively told The Sun: “I didn’t want to believe it, but I did.”
Nicolene, 40, mother to two of his six kids by three different women, said: “I don’t suppose you ever want to believe that somebody who you have children with could be capable of something like that.
“But then I have always thought he had a different side to him.”
Cilliers' first trial collapsed when a jury failed to reach a verdict.
But after a retrial in May 2018 he was found guilty of two counts of attempted murder.
Police were called to investigate Victoria’s skydive after an inspection of her kit by experts revealed two crucial loops, known as slinks, which attach lines to the harness from a reserve chute, were missing.
Victoria later told officers how, before her jump, her husband had taken her packed parachute into the hangar’s toilets.
Detectives had to break news of his infidelities to Victoria.
At first, she refused to believe them. But in a forensic examination of Cilliers’ electronic devices, detectives found tens of thousands of messages between him and Tinder lover Stefanie Goller.
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In one, he asked his lover to clean her house in the nude while his wife was in hospital.
His internet search history revealed he had looked for a “wet nurse” the night before Victoria was due to jump. Their son was five weeks old at the time and breastfed by her.
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