THE husband of Caroline Crouch has confessed to her murder after she vowed to leave him, police have now confirmed.
Police say her Greek spouse admitted killing his British wife – just weeks after he claimed she died during a brutal invasion of the couple's home.
Babis Anagnostopoulos, 33, admitted to smothering her to death after more than eight hours of interrogation in the homicide department of Athens' police headquarters.
Cops have spent weeks searching for the fictional Albanian criminals that Babis said had broken into his home and strangled Caroline to death.
"The culprit is her 33-year-old husband who has confessed to the act," the authorities said in a statement released late last night.
Police have described the killer as a "top class actor" for staging the elaborate crime scene and playing the grieving widower for over a month.
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- Joseph Gamp
GREEK POLICE: 'PERPETRATOR IS HER HUSBAND'
Greek police tweeted yesterday: "Investigation of the homicide of a 20-year-old native that took place on May 11, 2021, in Glyka Nera.
"The perpetrator is her 33-year-old husband, who confessed to his act."
Crouch, 20, was tortured and killed in front of her 11-month-old daughter in her home in an upmarket Athens suburb on May 11.
- Joseph Gamp
'EIGHT-HOUR INTERROGATION'
The pilot had killed the Brit in front of his eleventh-month-old daughter who he had cradled in his arms during Caroline's funeral in Alonissos, where she had been raised after her parents moved to the island.
Local media reported that police sources claimed that Babis confessed after more than "eight hours of interrogation."
"The evidence available to the police was such that it could not refuse it," the sources said.
"According to the first information, the 32-year-old pilot claims that his young wife told him when she was determined to take the child and leave him."
- Joseph Gamp
CAROLINE CROUCH'S HUSBAND DESCRIBED AS 'A TOP CLASS ACTOR'
Police have described him as a "top class actor" after staging the elaborate crime scene and keeping up with the sick charade as the grieving widower for over a month.
The disgraced helicopter pilot even DROWNED the family dog and hung its body from a stair banister to blame it on the burglars and strengthen his story, investigators said.
According to reports, Babis eventually broke down saying: "That night we had been arguing from early on.
- Joseph Gamp
GREEK HUSBAND CONFESSES TO SUFFOCATING BRITISH WIFE AFTER SHE ‘VOWED TO LEAVE WITH THEIR BABY’
THE Greek husband of Caroline Crouch has confessed to murdering her after she vowed to leave him, police have confirmed.
Babis Anagnostopoulos, 33, admitted to smothering her to death after more than eight hours of interrogation in the homicide department of Athens' police headquarters.
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