Emile Cilliers sentenced to life imprisonment following his conviction for attempted murder. A jury found the army sergeant guilty of trying to kill his wife Vicky by sabotaging her parachute. Wiltshire Police investigator Paul Franklin describes the sociopath as 'one of the most dangerous criminals I have locked up.' June 2018. Cilliers had also tried - and failed - to blow his family up by creating a gas leak at their home days before the parachute attempt.