A young British woman was strangled to death in front of her baby daughter while her husband was tied up in another room in their home in Athens.
The horrific killing of 20-year-old Caroline Crouch in front of her 11-month-old daughter is highly unusual in Greece and has shocked the country.
A special police task force has been ordered to investigate the murder, with a manhunt currently underway to identify the attackers.
The student was murdered by a gang of three burglars who ransacked the family’s apartment in the suburb of Glyka Nera in the Greek capital.
Police said the robbery took place at around 4am on Tuesday, when Ms Crouch, who was British-Filipino but born in Greece, was sleeping with her baby.
They reportedly pointed a gun at the child while demanding to know where cash and valuables were kept.
They also killed the family’s pet dog and tied Ms Crouch’s husband, Charalambos Anagnostopoulos, 32, a helicopter pilot, to a chair in another room.
The raiders then reportedly strangled Ms Crouch with her own blouse in order to stop her from screaming for help.
Mr Anagnostopoulos eventually managed to free himself and found his baby daughter crying beside the lifeless body of his wife.
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