Overview
- All three episodes of The Fall: Skydive Murder Plot were added to Netflix on Tuesday, June 30, 2026, making the Channel 4 series available to a much larger streaming audience.
- The programme revisits the Easter Sunday 2015 jump in Wiltshire when experienced skydiver Victoria Cilliers fell 4,000 feet after both her main and reserve parachutes failed to open and survived with life‑threatening injuries.
- Police found evidence that Victoria’s parachute had been tampered with and identified earlier suspicious behaviour including an alleged gas‑leak attempt, leading to the first trial in October 2017 and a second trial in May 2018 that convicted Emile Cilliers of two counts of attempted murder.
- Emile Cilliers was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 18 years and is serving his sentence at HM Prison Dovegate; prosecutors said financial pressure and an intent to benefit from insurance were central to their case.
- The three‑part series mixes interviews with Victoria and detectives and dramatised reconstructions featuring actors such as MyAnna Buring, a stylistic choice that divided critics while bringing Victoria’s 2020 memoir, reported 2024 remarriage and current work as a Ministry of Defence physiotherapist back into public view.