Lydia Crouch: A New Name for a New Beginning

The daughter of a young British woman smothered to death by her jealous husband, has officially adopted her mother’s surname, a legal ruling has decided.

The move severs all ties between Caroline Crouch’s surviving daughter, Lydia and her father, Babis Anagnostopoulos, serving a life sentence for suffocating his 19-year-old wife in grisly murder in 2021,

The British-trained helicopter pilot confessed to torturing and suffocating

his wife with a pillow in front of their infant daughter, after staging a fake robbery and hanging the house pet from a bannister in their home, in the residential district of Gylka Nera, northeast of Athens, the Greek capital.

The family’s lawyer confirmed the name-change after a year-long legal process. The victim’s parents petitioned for the change the day Mr. Anagnostopoulos was arrested, moving to protect their grand-daughter “from the stigma associated with her father’s crime,” the family attorney said.

David Crouch, Caroline’s father, had long expressed the family’s desire for Lydia to grow up in the Philippines, away from the shadows of the past, bearing a name that reflects her mother’s legacy than her father’s infamy.

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