Dairy School

A court in Ioannina, northwestern Greece, on Friday handed guilty verdicts to eight of nine defendants over their role in causing a fellow student at the city's Dairy School to take his own life in 2015.

The former students were convicted for violently and viciously bullying 20-year-old Vangelis Giakoumakis for several months, leading to his suicide.

The father of a college student who committed suicide after being subjected to violent and vicious bullying from a group of peers is due to stand trial on Monday for allegedly attacking the former director of the school where the tragedy transpired in 2015.

The shocking images brought to light show student Vangelis Giakoumakis, aged 20, who was pushed by bullies to take his own life, being tortured by his fellow students at the Dairy School at Ioannina.

The photos published by Eleftheros Typos newspaper are taken from a video showing the eight young men accused of causing grievous bodily harm to Giakoumakis torturing him.

A prosecutor in Ioannina, northwestern Greece, has turned an investigation into the apparent suicide of student Vangelis Giakoumakis into a murder case.

The prosecutor has issued charges of murder and grievous bodily harm, according to Dimitris Boukas, the lawyer representing the student?s family.

Officers of the police's cyber crimes unit have identified three persons suspected of posting abusive online messages against student Vangelis Giakoumakis who killed himself last month a few hundred meters away from his Dairy School dormitory in Ioannina, northern Greece, reports said Friday.

Students at the Dairy School in Ioannina, northwestern Greece, where 20-year-old Vangelis Giakoumakis took his own life last month amid reports that he suffered serious bullying on Thursday issued a statement in an apparent attempt to douse rising tensions in the small community as authorities seek to identify the alleged bullies.

Perpetrators of bullying could face a minimum six-month prison term if found guilty if a special provision drafted by Greek Justice Minister Nikos Paraskevopoulos becomes law.

The provision, which the ministry says was expected to fill a legal vacuum, is being drafted as part of legislation regarding the abolition of C-type maximum security prisons.

Public opinion has been stunned by the disappearance and suicide of student Vangelis Giakoumakis, aged 20, who was pushed by bullies to take his own life. Following his funeral in Crete, thousands of people gathered in ioannina, northwestern Greece, the place where the unfortunate boy spent the last few months of his life studying at the Dairy School.

Police in Ioannina, northwestern Greece, were questioning students and teachers at the local Dairy School on Monday after a coroner deemed that Vangelis Giakoumakis, a student at the school who was found dead after 38 days missing, took his own life.

The Piraeus-Herakleion ferry taking Vangelis Giakoumakis body home was accompanied by friends and relatives shattered by the news of the death of the missing student at 8 p.m. on Monday. Details concerning the last days of his life at the Dairy College of Ioannina where he had been studying were filled with loneliness and incessant bullying that caused the young boy to commit suicide.