Allegedly, the Greek pilot Confessed According to the charges announced on Thursday, he strangled his British wife while sleeping next to the couple’s children at his home in Athens in May and should be tried for deliberate murder.
The prosecutor handling the case also suggested that, 37 days after claiming that the death of his wife Caroline Crouch was a botched burglary, Babis Anagnanostopoulos (Babis) Anagnostopoulos) was charged with lying to the police.
In a 24-page report, excerpts were published by the Greek media, prosecutor Jogos Nulis said that the pilot trained in the UK had a “premeditated plan” when killing the 20-year-old pilot. plan”.
According to reports, Anagnostopoulos told the police after eight hours of questioning that he committed the crime out of anger, denying it was premeditated. The pilot was held in the heavily guarded Korydallos prison in the capital awaiting trial. He claimed that he fell into a “fuzzy state” after his young wife threatened to divorce him. But Nuris described him as being in a “calm state of mind.”
The report quoted him as saying: “Even though she is the mother of his child, he did not hesitate to take action.” “The victim is only 20 years old, and he is 13 years old. He should be her protector.”
The prosecutor also recommended that he be tried for alleged animal cruelty, because he admitted to suffocating his 7-month-old puppy from his leash as part of an attempt to make the crime look like a burglary.
Crouch was murdered in May-one of 12 Female killing The reports so far this year-shocked Greece. The police conducted raids across the country, and the pilot attributed the tragedy to a “relentless foreign gang of thieves.” Anagnostopoulos said that when his wife was killed, he was tied up and blindfolded.
The authorities provided 300,000 euros on a rare occasion Bounty Obtain information that could lead to the murderer.
After the police analyzed Crouch’s smart watch and combined the data downloaded from his own mobile phone to contradict his account of the incident, Anagnanostopoulos was taken to the final round of interrogation and arrested.
The prosecutor quoted the coroner’s investigation as saying that Crouch’s death was “painful” and that the asphyxiation process lasted 5 minutes and caused her “physical and psychological stress” in the last moments of her life. He said that the young woman had slept for 2.5 hours and was “unsuspecting”.
Crouch is the daughter of a retired oil and gas executive who grew up on the small island of Alonissos in Sporades.
She met Anagnostopoulos when she was a teenager, and then married him in Portugal when she was 18.
The family’s lawyer Thanassis Haramanis told the Guardian that he expects the trial to proceed at lightning speed next year, and the judicial system is notoriously slow. “We believe it will be available sometime between May and September,” he said. “We are optimistic.”
Caroline’s distraught parents, David and Susan, apply for custody of their young granddaughter Lydia after committing a crime.
In another development on Thursday, the Athens court awarded the custody of the child to Caroline’s mother, cancelled any parental rights that the pilot might have as her father, and granted limited visitation rights to her parents.
