A Greek pilot has been found guilty of murdering his Brit wife in front of their 11-month-old baby and hanging their pet dog.Babis Anagnostopoulos admitted suffocating 20-year-old Caroline Crouch as she slept in the couple's Athens maisonette in the early hours of May 11, 2021.The 34-year-old faced four charges: premeditated murder, animal abuse, perverting the course of justice and lying to police.He was found guilty on all counts as his five-week trial, which has made headlines worldwide, concluded today (May 16).In a 10-hour testimony last week, the helicopter pilot told the court he killed his wife “in the heat of the moment”, the Mirror reports.Before the verdict was announced to the public, prosecutor Eugenia Stathopoulu, said the evidence pointed to Anagnostopoulos killing of the mother of his child in cold blood.The prosecution argued that Anagnostopoulos had covered his wife's mouth with his hand and her face with a pillow while lying on top of her - leading to a drawn-out and "torturous" death.Through his lawyers, the pilot asked the court for a shorter sentence due to his clean criminal record and because he's been a model prisoner while on remand, according to Huffington Post Greece.They also called the relationship a "romance that ended in tragedy", despite witnesses testifying to his "controlling" behaviour.But prosecutors said it's "inconceivable" to accept any claims he was "kind to his family" because he "eventually killed them".Lawyers for Caroline's mum Susan said Anagnostopoulos was unrepentant and believed he'd got away with the perfect crime, TharrosNews reports.During the trial, Anagnostopoulos said he argued ferociously with Caroline even threatening to hit their baby daughter Lydia – a line of
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