Babis Anagnostopoulos: Caroline Crouch's killer husband receives 'bags of love letters’ in prison from female fans
ATHENS, GREECE: Babis Anagnostopoulos, 35, a former helicopter pilot who is currently serving a life sentence for killing his wife Caroline Crouch, 20, in front of their nine-month-old daughter Lydia, has "astonished" prison guards with the number of sick women who have written him love letters. While orchestrating a phony break-in at their home in a posh Athens district and using his daughter as a prop by leaving her lying in front of her mother's lifeless body, at last, the Greek police were quick to unravel his sordid act.
The wife killer is being bombarded with "bags" of "fan mail" from female supporters at the high-security jail in Malandrino, where he is currently serving his sentence of 27 years in prison. “We read, as is protocol, all the mail and have been left astounded,” speaking in anonymity, a guard said.
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'Twisted admirers believe everything happened in the heat of the moment!'
“They are written by women, Greek women, who say they are in love with him. They believe he is innocent, that Crouch’s murder wasn’t premeditated and everything happened in the heat of the moment," he told The Sun. This comes after the disgraceful Greek pilot tried to overturn his sentence with an appeal hearing which was delayed after his lawyer Alexandros Papaioannidis has "taken ill and is in hospital.”
He attempted to argue there were "mitigating circumstances" around the brutal murder. Previously his lawyer tried to argue that he is a “model prisoner” who “reads a lot and works in the prison canteen” and should not be punished for a crime “that was never premeditated."
Caroline Crouch and Babis Anagnostopoulos botched love affair
Caroline was apparently only 15 years old when she was introduced to Anagnostopoulos on the Greek island of Alonnisos, and just two days after she turned 18, the pair reportedly wed. At the time of her death, she was subjected to “a long and agonizing death,” according to a state coroner. Caroline was brutally pinned down by Anagnostopoulos in the couple's Athens maisonette, while she tried to fight back as he suffocated her for five minutes with a pillow.
In an attempt to win the judges, the phony man described his wife who he had met as a teenager on the island of Alonissos where she was raised, as “the love of my love.” The nation was divided after the man they thought was a grieving widower, who even hugged Caroline’s mother in a moment of shared grief at his wife’s memorial, was in fact her killer. Eventually, police were able to get a confession out of him, with new evidence provided by Carolines's smartwatch that helped pin him, after his own version of events was riddled with inconsistencies.
Anagnostopoulos's trial was adjourned until May 8.
