THE devastated family of a Brit mum tortured to death by burglars are taking her body to its final resting on the Greek island where she grew up.

The whole of the island of Alonnisos will attend the funeral of Caroline Crouch, 20, who was strangled by raiders at her home in an upmarket suburb of Athens.

Husband Charalambos “バビス” Anagnostopoulos, 32, was tied up with rope “like a sausage” and also handcuffed, with insulating tape over his eyes and mouth, レポートによると.

A coffin carrying the body of Caroline Crouch began what will be her last journey on Friday as mourners accompanied the hearse on a ferry bound for Alonnisos.

Crouch’s distraught mum Susan cut a tragic figure among the crowd who also included her husband.

“The whole island is going to be at the funeral. Everyone will be there,” Alonissos’ mayor Petros Vafinis told The Sun Online.

「とても愛されている’

“Caroline was much loved and we are as shocked here as everyone in Greece by this horrible crime. The municipality is putting on buses to take people up to the village where the cemetery is.”

The coffin was expected to arrive at 1pm local where it will be transported to the island’s main church, Ayia Paraskevi, where people would be able to pay their last respects.

Crouch was raised and schooled on Alonissos where her British dad, デビッド, had built a dream villa after falling in love with the island.

The former gas and oil executive had previously lived in Athens where he met Susan, a teacher who is Filipino.

Caroline moved to the island when she was a little girl, attending the local Greek school and joining the girl scouts.

Officers described seeing Caroline’s body tied to a pole where the intruders had tortured her in the family’s attic bedroom, reports Pro Thema.

Her 11-month-old daughter was “half on her, screaming and hitting her mother with her hands to wake her up”.

Charalambos has told investigators he begged for their lives as the brutal thieves held a gun to the baby’s head and demanded to know where they kept their cash and jewels.

彼は低酸素症に苦しんでいると信じられています – 潜在的に致命的な酸素不足 – before wriggling free and calling police in the early hours of Sunday.

Detectives have reportedly drawn up a “レッドリスト” の 100 suspects including foreigners and Greek nationals who have recently been freed from jail.

They are also probing possible links to five other robberies last year, which were also characterised by shocking levels of violence.

Officers suspect the gang may have been tipped off that the couple had £13,000 in banknotes stashed in the house.

The money was to pay for builders after they bought a plot of land and was reportedly hidden in a Monopoly box.

Police believe the gang had information on the land sale and believed they would find a large amount of money in the house, in an upmarket Athens suburb, Skai.gr レポート.

しかし、によると newsit.gr murder cops are looking at whether the information came from within the couple’s inner circle.

A distraught Charalambos told investigators the terrified couple pleaded with the depraved gang not to hurt them and their baby, as his wife screamed for help.

INNER CIRCLE

The gang kept torturing her, convinced more money was hidden in the house.

“They kept telling me ‘where is the money, ええ?’. I told them right away where I had hidden the money, so that the torment could end quickly.

“I heard my wife constantly screaming for help tied to the bed as I was tied up. The baby was crying, my wife was crying.”

The thieves eventually escaped with more than £30,000 in cash and jewellery.

3人の強盗は、CCTVカメラを壊し、家族の犬をひもでつるした後、午前4時30分に家族の2階建ての家に押し入りました。.

A fourth criminal kept watch outside the home as the other three found the couple sleeping with their child in an attic bedroom.

A police spokesperson told the local news outlet The Dawn that police believe the suspects broke into the house through a window in the basement after spending several hours observing the family.

A post-mortem examination was taking place yesterday and it is believed she may have been strangled with her own T-shirt.

Meanwhile police are colleting DNA samples from the couple’s clothes and from Caroline’s fingernails, which could lead them to the gang.

Samples from Caroline Crouch’s fingernails show evidence of her frantic struggle as she fought back against her torturers and are now being examined by investigators.

CCTV footage from nearby homes and businesses was also being examined and door to door enquiries were also taking place.

ギリシャのメディアで引用された別の警察官は、ギャングが特定され、よく知られていると主張しました.

「3人の強盗はプロです. 彼らは私たちが犯罪歴と呼ぶものを持っています,」と警官は言った.

"あれは, それらはマークされています, 彼らは刑務所を通過しましたそしてそれが判明したように, 彼らは強い反社会的要素を持ち、感情が完全に欠如している人々です。」

彼は、サディスティックなギャングが、犠牲者との「長期にわたる身体的接触」に武器を持っていたにもかかわらず、若い母親を殺すために「手を使った」と述べた。.

警官は、殺人者は立ち去る機会があったが、しなかったと言った.

「これは明らかに彼らの殺害の意図を示しています. 強盗で, 問題はお金です. 目標を達成するために殺す必要はありませんでした.

「彼らはお金を取りました, しかし、彼らは殺人罪で起訴されます. 彼らを何年もの間バーの後ろに送る犯罪.