Caroline Crouch: Slain woman's dad calls her killer husband a 'pedophile' for trying to get a reduced sentence for 'good behavior'
ATHENS, GREECE: Caroline Crouch was murdered by her husband in May 2021. Her grief-stricken father, David, has called out her killer, Babis Anagnostopoulos, stating that he should be treated as a “pedophile” after he strangled Crouch to death as she slept. The 35-year-old also brutally killed the family’s pet dog in the presence of their nine-month-old daughter, Lydia.
David reportedly fired back at his son-in-law after he hired a new attorney to reduce his life sentence. He told the Daily Mail, “It is absolutely despicable that my daughter's killer is trying to get his prison sentence reduced because of his 'good behaviour.' The crime committed by the murderer, that of femicide, is a heinous crime that should deserve particularly severe punishment.”
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‘The lowest of the low’
An angry and grieving David continued, “In my opinion, men who kill their wives, for whatever reason, are the lowest of the low, ranking alongside pedophiles. I think it will be a sad day for women when the murderer of a defenseless woman who slept with her child will serve less than his full prison sentence. This man is beyond contempt.”
However, Anagnostopoulos’ new defense lawyer, Katerina Mavroidi, reportedly does not think the same as she suggested that her client killed Crouch in the “heat of the moment” after the young woman “had pushed Lydia away." Mavroidi added that he killed her out of concern for the child.
Besides, Mavroidi tried to shift the hearing to 2024 so that she would get the chance to properly study the case. However, that request was dismissed after Crouch's mother, Susan, and the prosecutors’ argued against that decision. David, 79, stated, “The killer tried to get the hearing rescheduled until 2024 but the lawyer objected and it will now go ahead next month. The mother still believes in her son’s innocence and tries to show my beloved daughter in a bad light which I will not tolerate.”
‘How will I introduce her to him?’
The ex-gas executive also spoke of his granddaughter, who now lives with him and his wife. Expressing his heartbreak, David shared, “How will I introduce her to him? ‘That's your father. He killed your mother by the way and that's why you don't see him much. He may look charming but he's actually a brazen weasel. Your mum was a professional kickboxer and he had to wait until she was asleep before attacking her.’ He is not the kind of man a little girl would be proud to call father.”
David added, “Nothing to do with her mother who used to walk hand in hand with me in the village and when she met a classmate she would look at the tall man next to her and say to her friend, ‘Hello, that's my dad’. That always made me swell with pride.”