Hoping to “set aside” the first life sentence, Charalambos Anagnostopoulos, 34, will appear before the Mixed Court of Appeal today on charges of murdering his 20-year-old wife Caroline Crouchs and killing their puppy at his home in Glyka Nera, May 11, 2021.

A man sentenced to life in prison and an additional sentence of 11 years in prison and six months in prison arrives at his trial, which is expected to start changing his defense and hoping for a more favorable ruling than the one given to him in May last year. The Ministry of Defense by unanimous decision refuses, also unanimously, to recognize any mitigating circumstance for him.

According to the evidence accepted by the trial court in its decision, the defendant, before killing her in cold blood, sought complete control over Carolina, not only excluding her from family and friends, preferring to live far from the center, in a house in Sweet Waters, but also depriving her of ability to manage your money. “She was deprived of cash, as a result of which she could not carry out the simple operations of her daily life,” the Defense Ministry said in a statement.

The victim, realizing that she had “a dysfunctional relationship…, declared to the accused her desire to break off their married life and subsequently took steps to find a place to live.” The diary of a 20-year-old mother, according to the judiciary, refutes the defendant’s version of both that he did not plan the crime and that everything happened at the “inopportune moment.”

Before the trial court, the 34-year-old baripoinite, a Malandrino prisoner, fought and eventually lost two “battles”: changing the conditions under which the murder took place from “in cold blood” to “in hot water” and his recognizable brightener. In the first test, the pilot failed to convince that everything happened in the mode of his intense emotional load, that he was in a boiling state. He was also not convinced that he was entitled to leniency recognition.

In the trial, which kicks off unexpectedly today, the defendant himself and the female lawyer who chose her to represent him are expected to fight that battle again, hoping that the appellants will deliver a more favorable ruling for the 34-year-old pilot. .

Opposite them will be Caroline’s parents, who are raising their daughter, arguing that Anagnostopoulos’ sentence should not be reduced “not even one day.”

Caroline’s father: He will be the person who asked me to pay for my child’s coffin

For them, the 34-year-old will always be their child’s killer, the man “who cowardly murdered my beautiful daughter,” as Caroline’s father, David Crouch, said in an interview asking for justice.

“He will be the person who asked me to pay for my child’s coffin,” she told the first court that she was told by the victim’s mother, Susan Lyrarakis-Crouch, her close friend who testified.

The side of the victim, the parents of a 20-year-old teenager, was represented by their lawyer in the first court, as the father had serious health problems, and the mother tried to evade the accusation, which she feared she would pass on to her granddaughter. The defendant’s parents were also absent.

The “Freshwater Crime” shocked thousands of citizens inside and outside the country, not only because the victim was a British citizen or because of the particular brutality that the first evidence showed, but mainly because it turned out that what the perpetrator himself demonstrated as the brutal robbery after the murder turned out 37 days later to be a monstrous murder, a spousal murder.

For a month, the 34-year-old man claimed that the death of Carolina, who was frozen to death next to her 11-month-old daughter, as well as the death of the dog Roxy, who was found hanging from the railing of the internal stairs of the house, were the result of a robbery. The 34-year-old man wept to police, describing the horrific moments he had when three burglars entered the house, took the money and left, leaving his 20-year-old wife, Caroline Crouch, and the dog adopted by the woman dead.

For 37 days, the pilot gave characteristics to the criminals and expressed confidence that the police would find ruthless robbers to pay for the brutal crime.

Police findings, the victim’s biometric watch, the perpetrator’s mobile phone showing his movements around the house, and other data finally revealed a shocking reality: Anagnostopoulos killed a 20-year-old boy who was sleeping on the street at 4:30 in the morning. the day in question, with which he had quarreled nearly three hours before. The attacker allegedly went for it. For six full minutes, he “brutally blocked the sleeping victim’s airways” with a pillow, resulting in the “agonizing death by suffocation” of the 20-year-old.

The young woman was found with a cloth wrapped around her neck, tied at the back, with her baby sleeping on her back.

Those “six minutes” during which the victim struggled to breathe, were punched and pulled to catch his breath were decisive for DoD judges, who dismissed the 34-year-old’s version of his heated reaction to a heated argument he had was with Caroline. “He was in a calm state of mind,” the court ruled, “he had time to retreat, but the brake mechanisms did not work,” he ruled about those fatal six minutes, emphasizing that earlier the time from a quarrel to a crime completely excludes his “sudden overexcitement emotions” of the guilty.

The pilot was arrested just after Caroline’s memorial service on June 16, 2021 on Alonissos. Hours after crying in his mother-in-law’s arms, the 34-year-old confessed that his home had never been robbed, that he strangled Caroline while emotionally stressed after an argument between them, and that he hanged himself. her with her Roxy belt to “convince criminals of the cruelty”.

He said the same thing in his 10-hour testimony in the first trial, where he tried to convince that the crime he confessed to was committed in the heat of the moment, that he “got confused” when the 20-year-old made a move “during the fight and was afraid for child.

“The argument that he killed in a daze was immediately refuted from the moment he placed the child in the body of a dead mother. She knew of his unimaginable cruelty. He knew that the attention would be on the child and on the one who came out unharmed from the bloody robbery, ”the chief prosecutor of the court of first instance answered him.

“The murder was committed on a banal occasion, and the accused cannot even refer to obscene language from the victim. He put the child to sleep on the couch and went to kill…,” said the prosecutor, who described the negligence of the 34-year-old man when removing the biometric watch from the victim as an offense.

The prosecutor also highlighted the murder of Roxy, a small-month-old dog adopted by Caroline, stating that “the defendant quickly organized and killed the dog with unimaginable brutality. The animal was tortured, as was the girl. It was evident that the animal tried unsuccessfully to escape. It was something important to Caroline. No matter how the defendant says that he loved an animal, like Caroline, this cannot be believed. It was one of the questions that betrayed him. No bandit wastes time ritualistically killing a small dog.”

The 34-year-old’s first trial ended with the maximum possible punishment for both Caroline and the dog, and for defrauding the authorities for several days.

The end of the trial is expected to begin today, with judges deciding the outcome of the case for both the 34-year-old and the people who are still grieving their child while trying to protect their granddaughter. A toddler who was found by the police on the morning of the crime next to the lifeless body of his mother and who, growing up, will want to look for evidence of the “crime in Sweet Waters.”