Babis Anagnostopoulos: how a murderer fooled the world for months

The husband of Caroline Crouch tugged at heartstrings and implicated innocent foreigners while playing the part of grieving widower

Babis Anagnostopoulos: clever; photogenic; charistmatic; successful - all traits that perhaps allowed him to think he could fool the world. On Monday the game was up.

Justice caught up with the helicopter pilot who finally admitted it was he who had suffocated his British wife, Caroline Crouch, just over a year ago. And justice was unsparing. At the end of a dramatic trial, whose every twist and turn had gripped Greece, a mixed court of jurors and judges unanimously agreed that the 34-year-old should receive the toughest penalty possible under Greek law: a life sentence for the premeditated murder of his partner; a jail term of 11 years and six months for the brutal killing of the family's pet dog; and a fine of 21,000.