Metro
I suffocated my British wife with pillow, Greek husband confesses
Following a month-long investigation, a Greek national, Babis Anagnostopoulos, has confessed to killing his 20-year-old British wife, Caroline Crouch, for threatening to leave him.
Metro UK reported that the 33-year-old Anagnostopoulos had initially told police his partner was murdered by robbers who had tied him up at their home in the affluent suburb of Glyka Nera, near Athens, in the early hours of May 11.
Events took a twist on Thursday after a six-hour interrogation on Thursday night by Hellenic Police. He was forced to confess to the murder after the interrogators confronted him with the evidence from a smartwatch data discovered by detectives which contradicted his initial testimony that he had been bound and gagged by three assailants.
Anagnostopoulos, in his confession, claimed that he lost his temper and suffocated the young British mother with a pillow.
“That night we were fighting early. At one point she threw the child in the crib and told me to leave the house.
“I lost my temper, I suffocated her with the pillow. Τhen I made up the robbery,” Anagnostopoulos told the cops in a statement.
The suspect who is a pilot had previously claimed that the three robbers who broke into their home in the early hours, put a gun to his child’s head, strangled his wife, and killed his dog, and then got away with £10,000 in cash and £30,000 in jewelry.
Following his concession, a police spokesman – Apostolos Skrekas said that “When faced with the evidence he[Anagnostopoulos] confessed.
“The tracker contradicted his initial testimony that he had been roped up and gagged by three assailants. Instead, what we found was that he moved around the house, going from the attic to the basement.”
Shortly after her death, shops, bars, and restaurants on the island closed as its 2,000 residents laid her to rest in a hilltop cemetery overlooking the Aegean.
During her funeral on Alonissos in May, Anagnostopoulos 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 baby would grow up without her ‘beautiful mother’.
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