One year has passed today since the crime in Glyka Nera with the victim 20-year-old Caroline Crouch and today, at the Mixed Jury Court of Athens, the man accused of taking the life of the young woman and mother is pleading. The 33-year-old pilot Babis Anagnostopoulos will take the stand to apologize for the murder of his wife and mother of his child and his apology is reportedly expected to be marathon. Immediately after the completion of the defendant's plea, the countdown will begin for the judges and jury to deliver their verdict, after the prosecutor in the courtroom has spoken. It is likely, however, that the decision of the Mixed Jury will be announced at another session.
Today, the defendant will plead guilty to a total of four offences, namely two felonies and two misdemeanours. The felonies are those of manslaughter with intent committed while in a calm mental state and animal cruelty. The misdemeanors are: False accusation because he made others suspect of his actions and repeated false testimony, an offence concerning the false statements he gave to the authorities.
Before the investigating judge, the 33-year-old had attempted to show that Caroline's murder was due to ... an accident. According to reports, today before judges and jurors Babis Anagnostopoulos is expected to stick to the defense line he had "drawn" back then and argue, despite the evidence in the case file, that when he went to the bed where his wife was, i.e. where he murdered her, the 20-year-old was not asleep.
Specifically, in his statement to police officers about a year ago, he had described the scene of the murder of his wife and mother of his child as follows: "Caroline was asleep. In order not to frighten her, I lay down next to her and took her in my arms. Caroline was lying face down on the bed with the right side of her face resting on the pillow. I said, "Can I take the little one and we can go upstairs?" And she replied, "No don't bring the little one, I don't want you" and started shaking her body to get out of my arms. I continued to hold her tightly in my arms and told her that the little one must go upstairs to sleep. She kept shaking and I kept holding her tighter and tighter because I wanted to get her to listen to me and convince her to let the three of us sleep together. At some point as she was shaking her face against the pillow, I mean her mouth and nose were touching the pillow, I kept holding her in my arms until she stopped shaking. This all lasted about five minutes from the time I hugged her until the time she stopped moving. I lost it. I tried to wake her up, I rocked her but it was hopeless. Then I realized what had happened..."
In fact, the accused had mentioned in his testimony about the theatre he played for 37 days, pretending to be a depressed husband who lost the mother of the child at the hands of allegedly unscrupulous robbers who entered their house: "I am devastated and whatever I did, I did it with my child in mind. I did not want the child to be left without a father."
Source: protothema.gr
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