A teenager killed by her "controlling narcissist" husband who she met at 15 had told a therapist she was desperate to leave the "suffocating" relationship, a court heard.
Caroline Crouch, 19, was attending couple's counselling with Greek husband Babis Anagnostopoulos, 33, before she died - but therapist Eleni Mylonopoulou said the pair painted strikingly different pictures of the relationship. Ms Mylonopoulou told a court in Athens that Caroline would talk about starting over again with her baby daughter Lydia "the moment Babis would leave the room".
She said Caroline felt "controlled, suffocated and trapped" by Anagnostopoulos and had wanted to return to university and become a pastry chef, reported The Mirror.
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Anagnostopoulos is currently on trial for murdering Caroline, killing her dog Roxy and two counts of perverting the course of justice. The helicopter pilot has admitted killing his wife, but maintains it wasn't premeditated, but was instead a "crime of passion" after she threatened to divorce him.
Therapist Ms Mylonopoulou said Caroline also talked about being banned from having her own money, and "wasn't even allowed to have five Euros on her".
Caroline told her her husband had limited her contact with friends and tracked her whereabouts on her phone, and she believed he had installed cameras in their home which made her "paranoid" and "fearful", the court heard.
Ms Mylonopoulou said even when Caroline did go out, it would be in a taxi driven by Anagnostopoulos's friend and her "every movement was tracked".
The therapist noted that she gave the teen "clear" advice to leave the marriage, as it "could turn out to be very dangerous for her".
However, she told the court that the couple announced their intentions to build a new house together in their next session.
The therapist also pointed at Caroline's young age when she began dating Anagnostopoulos - who was 14 years older than her - as a red flag within the relationship.
The court heard Caroline had been 15 when they started seeing each other, while Anagnostopoulos was 28.
They married in Portugal in 2019 after meeting on the Greek island of Alonissos, where Caroline grew up, the Mail Online reports.
Ms Mylonopoulou said: "Why does a man of his age start a relationship with a child 15 years old? This is because it was easier for him to control her, given her age.
"There was no physical abuse but there was verbal, mental abuse. He is passive aggressive. He is a controlling narcissist."
Caroline was found dead at her home in Greece on May 11 last year, alongside her 11-month-old daughter Lydia.
Anagnostopoulos initially told police that foreign gang members armed with guns broke in while the family was sleeping, tied them up and killed his wife - but evidence from Caroline's smartwatch blew holes in his story.
He later admitted strangling and suffocating Caroline in her sleep until she died.
Ms Mylonopoulou told the court Anagnostopoulos had said they had a "perfect marriage", but when Caroline was alone with the therapist "she would tell me something very different".
She told the court Caroline was "afraid" of her husband and had always met friends or neighbours at their houses instead of her own because she thought Anagnostopoulos had installed cameras.
The therapist also claimed that owning Roxy had given the teen some respite, as she "absolutely loved" the dog - and said Anagnostopoulos' alleged killing of the pet was "symbolic".
Ms Mylonopoulou told the court: "A narcissist considers that he owns everyone and everything around him. This is why Babis thought he could do to them what he wanted and then try and fool us all."
The trial continues.
