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Gemma Jones

Channel 5's Caroline: Story of Caroline Crouch's murder and what happened

Channel 5 is airing a documentary that tells all about Caroline Crouch.

Liverpool-born Ms Crouch was reported to have moved to Greece when she was eight, and was raised on the island of Alonnisos by her British father, David Crouch, and Filipina mother, Susan Dela Cuesta.

The British mum-of-one was found dead in her bed in Athens next to her 11-month-old baby girl, after being suffocated as she slept.

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The film is set to show how the idyllic life between Caroline and her husband was in fact deeply troubled, and that she had been looking for somewhere else to live in the days before her murder.

Her husband, Charalambos (Babis) Anagnostopoulos, initially told detectives and reporters that Ms Crouch was strangled by an intruder, as he said she was killed by a gang of foreign burglars who broke into their home and tied them both up.

But after a lengthy investigation, police said his story did not add up.

Then they checked a range of technical devices to corroborate his account. Caroline Crouch's biometric watch revealed her pulse readings on the day she died. Babis Anagnostopoulos's movements were also tracked via his mobile phone, and the couple's surveillance system also highlighted discrepancies.

Although the suspect said he had been tied up, police said he had managed to use his phone at the time.

Police said Anagnostopoulos confessed to smothering Ms Crouch with a pillow in front of their baby following an argument.

Caroline first met Anagnostopoulos, who is 12 years her senior, when she was a child as he has ties to the island and was visiting family at the time.

They began dating when she was in her teens and got married in Portugal in 2019 and their daughter was born in June 2020.

Caroline: The Murder That Fooled the World will air February 17 on Channel 5 at 9pm

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