Sky-diver killer gets 30 years
A SKY-DIVER who murdered a love rival by sabotaging her parachute has been jailed for 30 years.
Els Clottemans, 26, hatched the plot to kill 37-year-old Els Van Doren after finding her in bed with her lover.
Clottemans cut through the straps of Van Doren’s parachute and watched her plunge 12,000ft to her death on a skydive in Belgium four years ago. The two women were part of a four-strong group which included their Dutch lover Marcel Somers, 46.
A jury at the trial in Tongeren yesterday decided that despite a lack of physical evidence Clottemans had cut the
parachute straps.
Prosecutor Patrick Boyen said: “she felt intense hatred for her love rival. People in an eternal triangle are capable of anything.