The father of the murdered Caroline spoke to England's Daily Mail newspaper after the conviction of Bambi Anagnostopoulos. The father of the slain girl made it clear that his daughter's killer will never see little Lydia, while denouncing that Anagnostopoulos left his wife without money to control her.
"This is not going to bring back my daughter"
"Now he was sentenced to a long prison term, although this is not going to bring back my beautiful daughter," says Caroline's father. "One small consolation is that he will serve his sentence in Korydallos prison, the most squalid, compared to which Belmarsh Prison in London resembles the Ritz Hotel. He will be in the same prison with other murderers, and all kinds of perverts. His good manners and his middle-class family background will not help him in this cockroach- and rat-infested hell-hole," he notes.
"Soon Lydia will be old enough to go to kindergarten on the island, the same one her mother went to. However, before that happens, I will give her the surname of Caroline so that she will no longer have anything to do with the murderer Anagnostopoulos.I will also make sure he never sees his daughter again," says the devastated father after the murder of his beloved daughter.
He dreads the day he has to tell Lydia the truth
"One day Lydia will ask where her mother is. That's the day I fear. She needs to know the truth, and half-truths aren't going to help. One day she will discover the naked truth and it's better she learns it in full from her loving grandparents than piecemeal," Caroline's father tells the British newspaper.
Lydia reminds him of Caroline
"When I see her running around the house I travel back 20 years," notes Caroline's father. "It was the time when Caroline was beginning to assert her independence, a feisty little girl who always knew what she wanted, but was so sweet.Their resemblance is unbelievable: a beautiful face with the biggest black eyes I've ever seen, inherited from her mother, as Caroline inherited from hers," notes David Crouch.
Lydia talks non-stop. She sleeps in Caroline's old room, in her mother's bed, but she refuses to spend nights alone, so her grandmother, Susan, sleeps with her. Susan suffers from depression and doesn't talk about Caroline's death at all.
All her attention is focused on caring for her granddaughter, her daily bath, mealtime, and conversations with her are what keep her going. "I'm afraid the Susan I knew for almost 30 years is gone. Caroline was the most important thing in her life," her husband says.
Anagnostopoulos was stealing money from Caroline
Caroline's father returns to the question of the money they were sending to the murdered girl. "It seems that Babis did not let Caroline have any money, not for pet food, not even pocket money. On the rare occasions she met friends she was forced to take a taxi driven by a friend to avoid having to pay (...)
What drives me crazy is that until the day she was murdered he was sending her 750 euros a month and Susan another 250 so she could have some independence. She didn't work and they thought it would be good if she didn't have to ask her husband for money. He even took away the 70,000 that Susan and I sent her to buy some land to build a house on. I am determined to recover this money because it rightfully belongs to Lydia," Caroline's father stresses.
His attitude towards Bambi's parents
Last October, a court awarded Caroline's parents sole custody of Lydia, allowing her paternal grandparents to visit her five times a month.
Initially David did not object, but now he has changed his mind, "I refuse to see them as they still believe in his innocence," he says. "I can't control the hatred I feel for their son and their belief that he is innocent and that he is just covering up for someone else - even though he has been convicted of premeditated murder."
When Caroline was born in a private clinic in Athens in July 2001, her father was sailing on a sea of happiness. Now he will spend the rest of his life in the unbearable grief of her loss. "I am still as devastated as I was on that horrible day a year ago when she died. Perhaps even more so, as during the trial I learned of the suffering Caroline went through in her marriage and I cannot bear the thought of my little girl suffering."
Caroline's belongings, which were delivered to her parents many months ago, remain still packed away. "We cannot see them. And just seeing some of her bottles and knick-knacks brings back memories of all the wonderful times we spent together," concludes the delighted father.
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