The criminal who killed British mum Caroline Crouch opined that his “human rights’ were violated by the courts.
Disgraced Greek pilot Babis Anagnostopoulos hoped to avoid the court appearance claiming that he had to remain in his top-security prison to take end-of-year exams to get into law school.
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The 35-year-old demanded that the dates of the appeals trial – at which he hopes to shorten his sentence for murdering Caroline Crouch -“didn’t clash” with the exams which begin on Friday.
The appeals Today, the judge overseeing court in Athens rejected the claim outright.
Reporters were told by the lawyer for the pilot, Alexandros Papaioannidis: “What happened was unprecedented.”
It is his right that he can sit for these tests. “His human rights have been violated.”
This morning’s hearing was postponed this week because the pilot did not appear in court with his team, claiming he was busy studying for the exam.
A neighbour is likely to be the main witness in this case. She told an inferior court, last year, that Caroline’s “manipulative” husband was the reason for her distress.
The twisted helicopter pilot, 35, brutally murdered his wife in front of their baby at their home in Glyka Nera, Greece, in May 2021, in what coroners described as “a prolonged and agonising death.”
Warped Babis then unashamedly tried to cover up his evil crime By telling The following are some examples of how to pronounce the word “politician” that Caroline had been killed by a gang during a break-in.
He was transferred to Athens from the top-security Malandrinos prison in central Greece on Wednesday where he has been locked up for the past year.
The killer won’t be taking the exam to gain entry into The law He cannot be moved back to his exam centre in time.
Angelikis Gérardolymatou, a former neighbour of the couple and a witness today in court, said that hours prior to the attack he sent text messages to the mother.
Describing the Brit student as “a lovely girl and lovely neighbour,” she said: “we both loved animals and she would talk about her animal welfare activities in Alonissos [the Greek island where Caroline was raised].”
“She brought her favourite kitten to Athens from Alonissos. And she loved Roxy,” she told the court referring to the stray puppy Crouch had adopted months before she died.
Anagnostopoulos, the pilot who admitted to killing the dog as part of a scheme to create the appearance that the scene was a botched break-in.
“What he did to Roxy would have devastated her,” Gerolymatou said as Anagnostopoulos looked on nervously.
When the police arrived at the two-story apartment the couple had rented, they found the dog dead hanging off a banister.
The UK-trained aviator’s legal team have said they will try to persuade appeals court judges to accept “the mitigating circumstances” that were never taken into account when a lower court last year found him guilty of murdering his wife, fatally abusing an animal and attempting to pervert the course of justice.
For 37 days Anagnostopoulos tried to pin the crime on “ruthless burglars.”
Alchistis igoumenaki, a psychiatrist who specializes in psychiatry, debunked the notion on Thursday that this murder had not been premeditated.
Addressing the court she said it was clear the pilot the suffered from “narcissistic personality disorder” and as a result could show “no empathy for the pain of Caroline’s parents.”
The psychologist told the tribunal: “He was manipulative in the extreme and this was proved by the letter he wrote to Caroline’s mother which he sent to her father.
“In that letter he tried to distort reality saying things like ‘you know how much Caroline loved me’ and “things didn’t happen quite as they seem.”
“With absolute logic and cool headedness, the accused was preparing his future.
“It is a letter that he wrote to show his daughter,” she said referring to then 11-month-old Lydia who was found by police next to her mother’s lifeless body.
“Everything he did was utterly manipulative.”
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