Babis Anagnostopoulos received proposals for a film on Netflix about his life

Production companies, both from Greece and abroad, have expressed strong interest in making a film or documentary about the life of Babis Anagnostopoulos.

“One or two proposals, from Greek or foreign media, at the level of Netflix. Of course, it must be with the consent of my principal if they really want anything worthwhile to be done,” Anagnostopoulos’ lawyer, Alexandros Papaioannidis, told ANT1.

“They expressed a desire to grant rights to something ready or to be given more information than what is known,” he added.

Papaioannidis was asked if Anagnostopoulos will speak publicly about the murder of Caroline Crouch.

“When he feels the need to speak he will,” he replied.

At the same time, he protested the decision of the Court of Appeal to continue the trial, even though the pilot has resigned while clarifying that he remains the attorney of Anagnostopoulos for all his proceedings and cases.

The Greek pilot who killed his British wife Caroline Crouch will be forced to stand trial again – despite trying to wriggle out of his appeal hearing over his wife’s murder.

In a dramatic development last week, Babis Anagnostopoulos tried to control the court by asking them to stop the trial in a move many (including Caroline’s own father) claimed was a cheap ploy to garner public support.

Today it emerged that Greece’s appeals court has rejected the petition, forcing him to go through with the appeal over the 27-year sentence he is currently serving for killing Caroline in May 2021.

The court’s prosecutor slammed the shameless pilot for even submitting the petition when the appeals trial had already begun.

“Once an appeal has begun it is impossible to withdraw,” the magistrate told the UK-trained aviator’s lawyer Alexandros Papaioannidis on Wednesday.

“Legally you know that very well. Therefore the trial will continue.”

The self-confessed killer will be called to return to court on September 12, but he will be forced to do so without Papaioannidis who also announced he would be dropping the case. New lawyers will instead be appointed to represent the 35-year-old.

In a bombshell announcement last week Anagnostopoulos said he was putting a stop to the appeals process – a move that meant he would relinquish the opportunity to reduce the sentence he earned for suffocating Caroline, 19, to death as she lay asleep in the couple’s rented maisonette in Athens.

In a move that sent shockwaves through Greece, the pilot placed their then 11-month old daughter, Lydia, next to her mum’s lifeless body.

For 37 days Anagnostopoulos tried to pin the crime on a bungled break-in by a squad of imaginary ruthless robbers.

Judges last year not only handed him a life sentence for the murder of the Brit student but ensured he was given an additional 11.5 years for killing her beloved puppy Roxy, and for deliberately perverting the course of justice.

“My client has decided for extremely important reasons, which are not announcable, to waive all legal means, specifically the appeal he filed against the decision of the mixed jury court in Athens,” said Papaioannidis, referring to the verdict of a lower court in Athens last year.

“He is in a very bad psychological state.”

But the announcement was met with immediate scepticism by Caroline’s distraught family with her Liverpool-born father David saying: “I am reluctant to take this announcement at face value knowing what a duplicitous b*****d Anagnostopoulos is.”

On Wednesday a Greek judicial expert speaking on condition of anonymity agreed, telling the Mirror: “What he did was nothing but a stunt to make a good impression in the court of public opinion.”

“He wants Greek society which has been very shocked by the way he killed his wife to feel sorry for him. It is only right and proper that the appeals trial continues so that this terrible story is finally closed.”

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