Victoria Cilliers

Victoria Cilliers is a skydiver, notable for having survived a murder attempt in 2015, when her husband interfered with both her main and reserve parachutes.

Victoria lives in Wiltshire, England, and is a physiotherapist for the Ministry of Defence.

[1] Victoria's ex-husband Emile Cilliers was born in South Africa in 1980 and moved to the UK in the early 2000s.

She survived the fall despite life-threatening injuries[1] because she landed on a soft, newly ploughed field.

[2] Emile Cilliers was convicted of her attempted murder in May 2018[3][4] after a previous trial failed to reach a verdict.