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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Helena Smith in Athens

Greek helicopter pilot found guilty of murdering British wife Caroline Crouch

Caroline Crouch
Caroline Crouch, 20, was murdered by her husband, who fabricated a break-in at their Athens home. Photograph: REX/Shutterstock

A Greek helicopter pilot who claimed he killed his British wife, Caroline Crouch, 20, in a fit of anger after a row that had “blurred” his senses, has been found guilty of murder at the end of a trial watched closely in Greece and abroad.

The seven-member mixed tribunal of judges and jurors concluded unanimously that Babis Anagnostopoulos was culpable of premeditated murder, of deliberately killing the family’s pet dog and of perverting the course of justice.

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