Caroline Crouch’s diary shows that her relationship with Babis Anagnostopoulos, her husband and eventual killer, had been troubled for years prior to her murder.
The Greek police have prepared a 26-page transcript to present to prosecutors as evidence for Crouch’s murder which includes extended excerpts from her diary, accessed by the media on Friday.
Caroline Crouch’s diary reveals the truth
From dates recorded in Crouch’s diary, it seems the marriage between 32-year-old Anagnostopoulos and 20-year-old Crouch began to have serious problems in November of 2019.
In the diary, she divulged that she had suffered the loss of a child prior to her pregnancy with Lydia, and that this was taking an extreme emotional toll on her. She refers to fights and disagreements with her husband, which she attributes to her bad mental health and hormonal issues following the loss of her child.
“I am 18 years old and I want to try to have a baby! I haven’t told Babi yet. Because today we had a fight and I told him, just to hurt him, that sometimes I think it does not matter that we lost our baby because at least I do not need to see his family. I regretted it the moment I said it,” writes Crouch of her fights with her husband.
“When I get upset I do not care how much I will hurt him. Basically I want to hurt him as much as I can. I think it’s because I feel so hurt myself; I often take out all the anger and sadness on Babi.
“He does not deserve to be treated like that, but sometimes he does not understand what I need and that all I need is for him to be by my side,” she continues, highlighting the miscommunication and lack of support she felt in her marriage.
Hormonal issues and the loss of a child
The diary reveals how much Crouch was struggling following the loss of her child and how this led to friction between the couple. Crouch’s cries for help and behaviour towards her husband do not justify her husband’s confession by any means, but do help provide motive for the horrific and tragic crime.
“Yesterday we had a fight with Babi because my hormones made me freak out on him. I screamed at him, hit him and told him I did not want our baby.
“I’m not well, I’m very upset, obviously I would never hurt my baby. I love my baby more than anything else in the world. I’m so influenced by my hormones and Babis should know that. I’m ashamed to tell him. I know he will support me but I can not tell him. I’m not well but I’m trying for my baby. I do not want (the baby) to feel that her mom does not want her and does not love her. My hormonal problems are mine,” Crouch continued.
On July 3, 2020, Crouch references a desire to leave her marriage and move out of the house, taking her child with her. Following her murder on May 11, Anagnostopoulos confessed to the crime and attributed his unspeakable actions to a fear that his wife would leave him.
“Today my little one is one month old and today is the day I told Babi that I want to leave home.
I felt and feel miserable. As soon as he left to get a document they sent us for the little one’s examinations I started looking for houses. I found exactly what I was looking for in Chalandri. When he came back from the hospital (the baby was being treated at the time) he asked me if I wanted to separate. I did not answer him,” writes Crouch almost a year before she was likely murdered for trying to leave her husband.
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