Pilot Husband ADMITS Murdering His Spouse Caroline Crouch By 'Suffocating Her With A Pillow In The Front Of Their Toddler In The Course Of Row' In Confession After Smartwatch Destroyed His Justification

 

The Greek husband of Caroline Crouch has confessed to killing her in front of their child when she threatened to walk out on him.

Babis Anagnostopoulos admitted strangling the 20-year-old Briton after detectives discovered smartwatch information which cautioned she did not die when first claimed.

The 33-year-old helicopter pilot had at first informed police his spouse was murdered by robbers who had tied him up at their home in the affluent suburb of Glyka Nera close to Athens in the early hours of May 11.

He informed police in his statement: 'That night we were fighting early. At one factor she threw the baby in the crib and told me to leave the house.

'I misplaced my temper, I suffocated her with the pillow. Τhen I made up the robbery.'

His confession, more than 5 weeks after her demise and after he broke down in tears whilst giving a eulogy at her funeral, came after an eight-hour interrogation on Thursday by Hellenic Police.

'When confronted with the proof he confessed,' said Apostolos Skrekas, a police spokesman.

'The tracker contradicted his preliminary testimony that he had been roped up and gagged by three assailants. Instead, what we discovered was that he moved round the house, going from the attic to the basement.'

Skrekas refused to intricate whether the husband had acted on his own or had hired accomplices.

He stated the reason the husband cited for murdering his spouse was that she had threatened to leave him hours before.

A health tracker strapped on Caroline Crouch's wrist published her heartbeat had flat-lined at least an hour before the 'pre-dawn raid' Anagnostopoulos had invented as a cowl story.

Greek police stated in a statement: 'Investigation of the murder of a 20-year-old native (or resident) that took vicinity on May 11, 2021 in Glyka Nera.

'The perpetrator is her 33-year-old husband, who confessed to his act.'

Senior investigators stated the husband was being held in custody pending his prosecution which is anticipated over the weekend.

Anagnostopoulos' confession ends a month-long investigation into what authorities billed 'a near-perfect murder' for the lack of proof the killer left behind.

'He claimed he acted in rage at a time of disaster with his wife,' Skrekas said. 'He explained in full element how he strangled the victim.'

Anagnostopoulos at first informed police that he was tied up by three robbers who broke into their home in the early hours, put a gun to his kid's head, strangled his spouse and killed his dog, and then got away with £10,000 in cash and £30,000 in jewellery.

But officers say the couple were bickering in the hours before her death, with textual content messages exchanged in English displaying one had called the other 'stupid.'

Police from Athens collected Mr Anagnostopoulos by helicopter for another interview on Thursday after he attended a memorial service with family on the island of Alonissos.

During her funeral on Alonissos in May, he carried their daughter Lydia to her mother’s coffin and laid a flower on her body before telling the congregation how distraught he was that their child would grow up without her ‘beautiful mother’.

When told by a British journalist of the shock in the UK over the murder, Anagnostopoulos replied: ‘Imagine how lousy I feel.’

Anagnostopoulos, who trained as a helicopter pilot in Liverpool, had married Miss Crouch in May 2018 after they met whilst he was on vacation to Alonissos.

Miss Crouch, a student at the University of Piraeus, had a British passport. She moved to Alonissos with her mom Susan Dela Cuesta and father David Crouch, 78, when she was eight.

Three days after her death, every shop, bar and restaurant on the island of Alonissos closed as its 2,000 residents laid to rest the British girl they had adopted as their own in a hilltop cemetery overlooking the Aegean.

Earlier, her killer had overtly addressed the mourners from the altar of the island’s Greek orthodox church.

Wiping away a crocodile tear, he told them: ‘I was very fortunate that I knew her and she cherished me. I was very fortunate for all the moments we had together.