Vangelis Giakoumakis

An appeals court hearing the case of the 2015 death of 20-year-old Vangelis Giakoumakis, on Wednesday handed a two-year suspended sentence for negligence to a former director of a farming school in Ioannina, northwestern Greece. The court acquitted the school's dorm head, who was also facing charges of negligence.

The prosecutor in the trial of the 2015 death of Vangelis Giakoumakis in the northwestern city of Ioannina has recommended the acquittal of a former director of the school where the student was studying and the head of the dorm where he was staying, who were facing charges of negligence, as well as Christos Markoyiannakis, a former deputy minister who was accused of trying to protect the studen

The prosecutor in the trial of the 2015 death of student Vangelis Giakoumakis in the northwestern city of Ioannina is proposing that charges of aggravated suicide should apply as regards a group of fellow students alleged to have beaten and bullied the 20-year-old.

The trial into the 2015 suicide of student Vangelis Giakoumakis in the northwestern city of Ioannina continued Tuesday with testimony from the 20-year-old's roommate and the head of the security company guarding Ioannina Dairy School, who said that neither she nor her staff were aware he was beaten and bullied by fellow students.

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.

Parents of bully victim Vangelis Giakoumakis, who committed suicide after being hazed by students of the Dairy School of Ioannina, have decided to start legal action against the education facility’s administration. They were outraged by the school’s decision to “punish” students who were responsible for their son’s torture by simply reprimanding the students responsible.

A coroner has confirmed that 20-year-old dairy school student Vangelis Giakoumakis, whose body was found in a field in the northwestern city of Ioannina, killed himself.

The coroner?s report said that no other DNA was found on or near Giakoumakis?s body. The Cretan student, who had drunk a small amount of alcohol before his death, slit his right wrist.

Preliminary results showing that Vangelis Giakoumakis committed suicide by slashing his wrist were boosted this week, after tests showed that DNA on a knife found next to his body contained only his genetic material.

Father Dimitrios, an orthodox priest who was close to Vangelis Giakoumakis, the 20-year-old student from Crete who was pushed by bullies to take his own life about a month ago, describes the unfortunate young man as an exceptional and mature person.