Closer to the day when he will stand before the regular and jury judges of the Mixed Court of Justice to apologize for the death of his 21-year-old wife, is arriving today Babis Anagnostopoulos, whose trial is continuing after the adjournment of the sittings for the Easter.
The trial of the 34-year-old pilot, who for more than a month claimed to authorities that the gruesome suffocating death of Caroline, on May 11, 2021, was the result of brutal criminals who broke into the house in Sweet Waters in order to rob them, arrives in the very next court sessions, at the moment when the accused will publicly apologize for what he is accused of. .
During the proceedings before the Trial Chamber, which began on 8 April to consider the “Sweet Waters crime”, the accused in Caroline's murder is present in court, even taking notes on each witness statement and exercising his right to ask questions. Anagnostopoulos, having a paper and pen with him on the stand, from the moment the first witnesses, the police officers who had rushed to the couple's maisonette in Sweet Waters, took notes of what they said so that he could then ask questions. He did the same when the couple's neighbor testified, as well as the woman who was visiting with Caroline as a mental health counselor, who described him as a highly manipulative man who needed to be in complete control of his wife and mother of his newborn daughter. «He had manipulative and abusive behavior.», said the witness who in the previous court session completed five hours of testimony , with the accused asking her dozens of questions immediately afterwards.
A witness, in the capacity of a technical consultant, who has been proposed by the Caroline family, is expected to testify in court today, while two witnesses, also with specialist knowledge, who have been requested by the defendant's defence, are scheduled to testify. These are to be the last testimonies the judges will hear in the case.
If these three statements are completed, the evidentiary process will continue with the reading of the case documents so after one or two court hearings it will be the turn of the 34-year-old to give his own version of what happened on the night in question, in the presence of his 11-month-old daughter, in the maisonette in Sweet Waters. But also to explain what followed with the attitude he chose to keep until his arrest and confession, a few hours after Caroline's memorial service in Alonissos.
