Determined to take care of little Lydia and ensure that the memory of Caroline who was murdered by her husband "will live forever" say the parents of the 20-year-old.
In a shocking interview in the Daily Mail, the parents of the undefeated 20-year-old "break" their silence for the first time and talk about everything they feel after the revelation that the killer of their child was their son-in-law but also about Caroline herself, describing their child's life.
The parents of the murdered Caroline took an oath to take care of her daughter and to ensure that "the memory of her mother will live forever", the newspaper reports.
Susan and David Crouch are immersed in an unspeakable grief that will accompany them forever and the only purpose of their lives now is to raise their granddaughter Lydia, who is too young to understand what happened.
It has been 41 days since Caroline's murder and almost a week since her husband confessed to killing her in front of their daughter's innocent eyes.
"Both Susan and I will spend the rest of our lives ensuring that justice is done and that her little daughter Lydia grows up with all the good we can give her and that her mother's memories will live on forever." , says the father of the unfortunate 20-year-old.
David and Susan are deeply proud of their child who died tragically at the beginning of a seemingly fairytale life.
Despite their pain, however, as the British media notes, they will not even hesitate to engage in a legal dispute with Babis Anagnostopoulos' parents over the custody of Lydia, who is only 11 months old.
The tragic parents experienced the absolute horror as not only did they lose their daughter so violently but also, their groom, with whom they cried embracing, deceived them in the worst way imaginable and for 37 days created his profile. "Good boy".
For weeks, Babis Anagnostopoulos pretended to be the sad widow as police searched for the "robbers" who claimed to have tied him up and killed his wife and dog, Roxy.
Last Wednesday, a few hours after he hugged the collapsed mother of Caroline, at the memorial of his wife, the 33-year-old "broke" and confessed to the police his crime.
Caroline's childhood
Faced with such a horrific betrayal, David and Susan can not bear to talk about the events of May 11 when their daughter also died a horrible death at the hands of her husband. They prefer to narrate the course of her life, starting from the settlement of the family in Allonissos when Caroline was only 22 months old.
David, a retired director of a gas company who met his wife, originally from the Philippines, in Athens, while working on a pipeline project, built his dream home on a stunning hilltop of Alonissos overlooking the Aegean Sea.
The 78-year-old father describes: "Caroline was born in a private hospital in Athens on July 12, 2001, but was a British citizen. "She first came to the island in her mother's arms to meet her future friends and then moved to the island permanently with Susan and me in May 2003."
Speaking to the British media, the father listed the many achievements of his wonderful, as he characteristically states, daughter.
As a student, the multilingual Caroline "could get along with most boys her age" and was just as gifted academically.
Caroline went to kindergarten at the age of 3, elementary school at 5 and graduated with honors from high school. As her father said: "He was always a flag bearer in the parades". She added that she was a scout and "participated in events with traditional dances", stating: "At a relatively young age, she became a capable athlete in canoe kayaking. And as a talented performer, together with her classmates, she gave performances on the stage of the municipal theater ".
In the middle of adolescence he started a course of religious studies. "Both Susan and I were very proud when she managed to go to the University of Piraeus to study statistics, although we were sorry she would leave home," her father added.
He also stressed that his daughter was "not only a brilliant student, but she was also a wonderful athlete." In particular, she said: "She learned to swim at a young age, she learned to do offshore diving and her only disappointment was that she could not get the instructor certificate because she was under 18 at the time. She ran 10km marathons here on the island and could beat most boys her age. A capable Kick Boxer, terrified me, although I can say, with my hand on my heart, that as long as we were together, we did not exchange a single heavy conversation ".
"During the school holidays, she traveled with her friends from school, calling home every day to reassure her mother that she was OK. Using her fluency in languages, she helped organize these trips for her school. "Apart from speaking Greek, she spoke fluent English and was fluent in French and Tagalog, her mother tongue."
Caroline and pilot Babis Anagnostopoulos were married in Portugal in 2018. They lived a seemingly perfect life in a maisonette in Glyka Nera.
Caroline's parents are determined to seek justice for Lydia and provide her with the best possible upbringing. The little girl is currently in the care of Babis Anagnostopoulos's parents, with his parents yesterday saying that they want to play a role in her upbringing.
Anagnostopoulos' father, Konstantinos, said: "The baby is with us. "All we care about is the future of this baby and we want to focus on that as much as possible."
Referring to the imprisonment of his son and the death of his bride, he said: "As a father now, I have lost two children. "Now I want to make sure that this baby will not have any more bad luck - none of this is wrong with this child."
Source: skai.gr