Trial of Greek pilot accused of murdering British wife Caroline Crouch to begin

Babis Anagnostopoulos alleged to have confessed to the Athens murder and to hanging her puppy

The trial of a Greek helicopter pilot accused of strangling his British wife as she slept next to their baby daughter is due to begin on Friday in Athens.

Nearly a year after Caroline Crouch was found dead in the couple's maisonette, her husband, who had originally attempted to pin the murder on ruthless foreign thieves", will appear before a mixed jury court in the Greek capital. It will be the first time that Babis Anagnostopoulos, 33, has been seen in public since his alleged confession to a crime that has gripped the nation.