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Helicopter pilot,33, convicted of suffocating his wife ‘smuggled drugs for cartels and may have killed his British wife when she found out’ – Greek police

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;403737"><strong>Caroline Crouch&&num;8217&semi;s Greek helicopter pilot husband&comma; <strong>Charalambos<&sol;strong><&sol;strong> <strong>Anagnostopoulos&comma; &&num;8216&semi;smuggled drugs for cartels and may have killed his British wife when she found out&&num;8217&semi;&comma; Greek police fear <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;403737"><strong>The linkage to possible drug smuggling arose only after analysis showed that Anagnostopoulos lived a lavish life&comma; despite earning a pilots salary <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;403737"><strong>Lifestyle sparked fears the helicopter pilot&comma; 33&comma; may have had another income <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;403737"><strong>Anagnostopoulos&comma; 33&comma; is incarcerated after he admitted that he suffocated his wife then staged a violent home invasion <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;403737"><strong>He admitted murdering her in June after weeks of playing the grieving widow<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;07&sol;Charalambos-Anagnostopoulos-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-383206" width&equals;"832" height&equals;"832"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Theories of potential drug involvement were sparked after an investigation into Charalambos Anagnostopoulos&&num;8217&semi;s finances revealed he lived a lavish lifestyle&comma; despite earning a pilot&&num;8217&semi;s salary<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Greek police now fear the 33-year-old helicopter pilot accused and convicted of killing his wife and staging a home invasion may have been smuggling drugs for cartels and killed his British wife when she found out&period;<br>After the death of Caroline Crouch&comma; theories of potential drug involvement were sparked after an investigation into the finances of her husband Charalambos Anagnostopoulos revealed he lived a lavish lifestyle&comma; despite earning a pilot&&num;8217&semi;s salary&period; <br>Police officers found the couple had recently paid &dollar;64&comma;700 for a plot of land&comma; designed a &dollar;193&comma;000 home&comma; and enjoyed an expensive get away to Dubai&period; <br>The find&comma; police said&comma; suggests Anagnostopoulos&comma; aka Babis&comma; may have had an alternative source of income and he killed Caroline when she found out where it came from&period;  <br>The 20-year-old mother of one was suffocated to death with a pillow in front of her 11-month-old daughter in the early hours of May 11&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;07&sol;Charalambos-Anagnostopoulos-and-Caroline-Crouch-3&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-383221" width&equals;"837" height&equals;"656"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Anagnostopoulos only admitted to the murder after data from Caroline&&num;8217&semi;s smartwatch showed she was in an &&num;8216&semi;extreme state of mental or physical stress for six minutes&&num;8217&semi;&comma; and revealed that she did not die at the time he had originally claimed<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;07&sol;Caroline-Crouch-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-383208" width&equals;"833" height&equals;"791"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Greek police now fear Caroline Crouch&&num;8217&semi;s &lbrack;seen with the couple&&num;8217&semi;s baby&rsqb;&comma;helicopter pilot husband may have been smuggling drugs for cartels and killed his British wife when she found out<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The victim&&num;8217&semi;s dad&comma; David Crouch&comma; said he believes there was &&num;8216&semi;some foundation&&num;8217&semi; to rumors Babis was involved in drug smuggling&period;  <br>David Crouch said he and wife Susan learned of their daughter&&num;8217&semi;s death from neighbors on the Greek island Alonissos&period;<br>He said&colon; &&num;8216&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;ll never forget how I felt&period; It was as if an icy hand had reached inside my chest and gripped my heart&period; It was the worst day of my life&period;&&num;8217&semi; <br>Babis told investigators his wife had been killed during a violent home invasion where armed burglars had tied him up and suffocated Crouch&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-video wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-videopress wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio"><div class&equals;"wp-block-embed&lowbar;&lowbar;wrapper">&NewLine;<iframe title&equals;"VideoPress Video Player" aria-label&equals;'VideoPress Video Player' width&equals;'620' height&equals;'372' src&equals;'https&colon;&sol;&sol;videopress&period;com&sol;embed&sol;lg48dRif&quest;preloadContent&equals;metadata&amp&semi;hd&equals;0&amp&semi;cover&equals;1' frameborder&equals;'0' allowfullscreen allow&equals;'clipboard-write'><&sol;iframe><script src&equals;'https&colon;&sol;&sol;v0&period;wordpress&period;com&sol;js&sol;next&sol;videopress-iframe&period;js&quest;m&equals;1674852142'><&sol;script>&NewLine;<&sol;div><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>He later confessed to killing his British wife&comma; telling police he murdered her in a fit of rage after she had ordered him out of the house and demanded a divorce&period; <br>After suffocating her with a pillow&comma; Babis said he &&num;8216&semi;panicked&&num;8217&semi; when he saw she was dead&period; Once he realized hiding her body was not an option&comma; he staged a fake robbery and killed the couple&&num;8217&semi;s dog because he &&num;8216&semi;wanted to raise&&num;8217&semi; their daughter out of prison&period;  <br>Anagnostopoulos&comma; known as Babis&comma; initially told investigators that his wife had been killed during a violent home invasion where armed burglars had tied up husband and wife&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;07&sol;Charalambos-Anagnostopoulos-and-Caroline-Crouch-with-their-baby-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-383210" width&equals;"814" height&equals;"801"&sol;><figcaption><strong>&nbsp&semi;Anagnostopoulos seen here with his wife Caroline and their one-year-old daughter Lydia&comma; initially told investigators that his wife had been killed during a violent home invasion where armed burglars had tied him and Caroline up&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Anagnostopoulos later confessed to killing his British wife&comma; telling police he murdered her in a fit of rage after she had ordered him out of the house and demanded a divorce&period;<br>The admittance came after data from Caroline&&num;8217&semi;s smartwatch showed she was in an &&num;8216&semi;extreme state of mental or physical stress for six minutes&&num;8217&semi;&comma; and revealed that she did not die at the time Anagnostopoulos had originally claimed&period;<br>It also came after weeks of falsely playing a grieving husband&comma; and surrounding himself with Ms Crouch&&num;8217&semi;s family and devastated parents&period;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;<br>Believing he had got away with the elaborate cover up&comma; Babis even asked her parents to shell out &dollar;4&comma;818 &lbrack;4&comma;000 Euros&rsqb; &&num;8211&semi; for her coffin&period;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;06&sol;Babis-Anagnostopoulos-3&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-381887" width&equals;"536" height&equals;"925"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Anagnostopoulos &lpar;pictured wearing a bulletproof vest while in custody&rpar; later confessed to killing his British wife&comma; telling police he murdered her in a fit of rage after she had ordered him out of the house and demanded a divorce <&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8216&semi;This man has no shame&comma;&&num;8217&semi; said Thanassis Haramanis&comma; the lawyer for the Crouch family&comma; said&colon; <br>&&num;8216&semi;First he killed Caroline&comma; then he asked her parents for money to pay for her coffin and to fly her body from Athens for the funeral&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;They gave him 4&comma;000 euros&period; He paid nothing&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br>Crouch&&num;8217&semi;s parents have since won temporary custody of their granddaughter Lydia and intend to bring her up on Alonnisos&period;      <br>Police are also investigating Babis&&num;8217&semi;s claim he murdered his young wife in a fit of rage after she threatened to leave him&period;   In police his interviews&comma; Babis claimed Caroline was &&num;8216&semi;aggressive&&num;8217&semi;&comma; telling police &&num;8216&semi;you cannot imagine my love for this girl&&num;8217&semi;&period; <br>He claimed Crouch &&num;8216&semi;threw the child in the crib&&num;8217&semi; and hit him&comma; causing him to lose his temper on the night she was killed&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;07&sol;Roxy-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-383214" width&equals;"811" height&equals;"816"&sol;><figcaption><strong>After suffocating Caroline as she slept&comma; Anagnostopoulos then smothered puppy Roxy &lbrack;photo&rsqb; and hanged the pup&&num;8217&semi;s lifeless body on the banister of their first floor flat in Athens<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>But the victim&&num;8217&semi;s diary&comma; which form part of a 26-page police file&comma; paints a picture of a violent&comma; abusive and unhappy marriage&comma; with her vowing to leave him at several points&period;<br>The heartbreaking entries told of bitter fights between the pair&comma; with Crouch recalling one where she &&num;8216&semi;hit him&&num;8217&semi; and &&num;8216&semi;broke down a door&&num;8217&semi;&period;<br>Crouch said she was thinking of leaving the marriage as early as 2019 and that she &&num;8216&semi;was not well&&num;8217&semi; in the relationship&period;<br>She first told Babis she would leave him in July 2020&comma; when their baby was a month old&comma; saying she &&num;8216&semi;felt and feels miserable&&num;8217&semi; and she was looking for houses&period;<br>In the months before her death&comma; Babis became increasingly controlling&comma; a source said&period; <br>He allegedly installed a tracing app on her phone and accompanied her to therapy sessions&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;They way she was murdered suggests she was physically and symbolically shut up&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br>A lawyer for Eleni Mylonopoulou &&num;8211&semi; described in local media as &&num;8216&semi;the couple&&num;8217&semi;s mental health counsellor&&num;8217&semi; &&num;8211&semi; said Crouch had been looking for an apartment in central Athens in order to leave her husband&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;07&sol;Burial-for-Caroline-Crouch-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-383212" width&equals;"839" height&equals;"549"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Believing he had got away with the elaborate cover up&comma; Babis even asked her parents to shell out &dollar;4&comma;818 &lbrack;4&comma;000 Euros&rsqb;&comma; for her coffin &lbrack;photo&rsqb;<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>She wanted to leave in November and find a home near a cooking school she planned to attend reports local paper&comma; <a rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;tanea&period;gr&sol;2021&sol;06&sol;28&sol;greece&sol;law&sol;glyka-nera-i-karolain-fovotan-para-poly-ton-mpampi-epsaxne-spiti-gia-na-fygei&sol;">tanea&period;gr<&sol;a>&period; <br>Crouch had told her counsellor that she was very afraid of husband and sought advice on how to improve her situation&comma; lawyer Stamatia Markou said&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;Caroline had revealed from the first moment to my client the fears for her husband&comma;&&num;8217&semi; the lawyer said&period;   <br>Speaking to local media at the weekend&comma; Stamatia Markou&comma; a lawyer for Eleni Mylonopoulou &&num;8211&semi; described in local media as &&num;8216&semi;the couple&&num;8217&semi;s mental health counsellor&&num;8217&semi; &&num;8211&semi; said Crouch had been looking for an apartment in central Athens in order to leave her husband&period;<br>The counsellor said that Crouch realized she had made the wrong choice in marrying Anagnostopoulos and was looking for a way out of the relationship&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;The fear that Caroline felt in her sessions was pervasive&comma;&&num;8217&semi; she said&comma; adding that Crouch&&num;8217&semi;s counsellor would ensure the door was closed properly so that her husband could not hear what was discussed in their sessions&period;<br>Markou went on to say that the couple had &&num;8216&semi;many problems&&num;8217&semi; and that &&num;8216&semi;there had been no relationship between them&comma; not even sexual&comma; in recent months&period;&&num;8217&semi;  <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;06&sol;Caroline-Crouch-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-381875" width&equals;"696" height&equals;"1004"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Victim&colon; Caroline Crouch &lbrack;see playing with one-year-old daughter Lydia&rsqb;&comma; realized she had made the wrong choice in marrying Anagnostopoulos and was looking for a way out of the relationship&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The counsellor said she had urged Crouch to speak to her mother but her patient had refused&comma; saying she did not want to disappoint her own mother&period;  Adding that Crouch realized she had made the wrong choice in marrying Babis Anagnostopoulos and was looking for a way out of the relationship&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;She was trying to find ways to get out of the situation&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Markou said&period; <br>Markou also accused Anagnostopoulos of attempting to &&num;8216&semi;blackmail&&num;8217&semi; the counsellor&comma; saying without elaborating that Mylonopoulou was &&num;8216&semi;indirectly blackmailed by the confessed perpetrator&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br>&&num;8216&semi;He went and found her up close&period; He had the courage&excl; My client made sure she was not alone&comma; precisely because she was afraid of him&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Markou said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;07&sol;Charalambos-Anagnostopoulos-2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-383211" width&equals;"842" height&equals;"780"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Anagnostopoulos is seen behind barbed wire in the exercise yard of the notorious Korydallos prison&comma; the country&&num;8217&semi;s main maximum-security facility<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Mylonopoulou also reportedly received a message from Crouch asking to end the counselling sessions&period; Markou claimed it was not unlikely that this message had actually been sent by Anagnostopoulos&period;<br>Anagnostopoulos is incarcerated at the notorious Korydallos prison&period; The prison is located on the outskirts of Athens and is the main maximum-security facility in Greece&period;<br><br><br><br><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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