Chilling update in Caroline Crouch murder as killer husband gets swamped with love letters from twisted female admirers
CAROLINE Crouch's twisted killer husband is receiving "bags of love letters" in prison from twisted admirers.
Prison guards have been left "astounded" by the number of vile fans writing to former helicopter pilot Babis Anagnostopoulos.
Anagnostopoulos, 34, murdered his Brit-born wife Caroline, 19, before staging a crime scene - tying himself up and killing the couple's dog, Roxy, at their home in Greece.
The couple's baby daughter Lydia, was found alongside her mum's lifeless body - seemingly placed there by her evil dad.
He claimed the robbers had suffocated the mum-of-one to death - but cops quickly found out that he was the real killer.
The murderer has since been languishing in jail after being sentenced to 27 years in prison.
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He is now shamelessly trying to overturn his sentence - with an appeal hearing today delayed due to his lawyer being sick.
But the wife-killer is also being bombarded with "fan mail" from female supporters.
Prison officers are having to sort "bags" of letters for Babis at the high-security jail in Malandrino.
“We read, as is protocol, all the mail and have been left astounded,” one guard speaking on condition of anonymity told The Sun Online.
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“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.”
It came as Anagnostopoulos was brought to the appeal court today in handcuffs as he tried to get his sentence reduced - before the case was adjourned.
He is attempting to argue there were "mitigating circumstances" around the brutal murder.
His lawyer, Alexandros Papaioannidis, has previously argued his client 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 was introduced to Anagnostopoulos when she was just 15 on the Greek island of Alonnisos - and the two wed just three days after she turned 18.
Crouch, who was two months short of her 20th birthday when she died, was subjected to “a long and agonising death,” according to a state coroner who examined her body hours after the incident on May 11 2021.
She was pinned down by the pilot as she slept in the couple's Athens maisonette, violently resisting as she attempted to fight back as he suffocated her for five minutes with a pillow.
In a bid to win over judges last year in his initial trial, Anagnostopoulos described Crouch, who he had met as a teenager on the island of Alonissos where she was raised, as “the love of my love.”
For 37 days, Greece was on tenterhooks as the man the nation thought was a grieving widower - who even hugged Caroline’s mum, Susan, in a moment of shared grief at his wife’s memorial – led police on a wild goose chase.
Eventually investigators got him to confess after it became clear with new evidence provided by Crouch’s smart watch that his own version of events was riddled with inconsistencies.
The appeals hearing which is expected to last months, was unexpectedly cut short on Monday.
Anagnostopoulos told the court that Papaioannidis, his lawyer, couldn’t represent him because he had been “taken ill and is in hospital.”
The trial was adjourned until May 8.
Last week, Caroline’s Liverpool-born dad, David, reiterated that his priority in life was to bring up Lydia.
The little girl who is almost three, is now living in the Philippines with Susan and the family of Caroline’s cherished half-sister after the Crouch family won exclusive custody of the child.
Under a court order Anagnostopoulos’ parents are allowed to speak to her for only one hour a week via SKYPE or other electronic means.
David told local TV station Mega. “I am determined that the monster who killed her mother, as well as those two ridiculous people who are his parents, will never see my granddaughter again.”
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David said he was saddened that the death penalty no longer existed in Greece “so that he [Anagnostopoulos] could be sent to hell.”
The family are also hoping that they can have Caroline's body exhumed so her remains can be moved to be with them in the Philippines - severing their final ties to Greece.
