Vangelis Giakoumakis

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.

A prosecutor on Tuesday recommended a guilty verdict for eight former students of the Dairy School of Ioannina in northwestern Greece who are accused of causing grievous bodily harm to to their classmate, Vangelis Giakoumakis, a 20-year-old who committed suicide at the school in 2015.

A woman testifying in the trial against nine former students of the Dairy School of Ioannina on charges of causing grievous bodily harm to classmate Vangelis Giakoumakis - a 20-year-old who committed suicide at the school in 2015 - said she saw the accused punching the victim repeatedly in the face and spitting on him.

The trial against nine former students of the Dairy School of Ioannina on charges of causing grievous bodily harm to classmate Vangelis Giakoumakis - a 20-year-old who committed suicide at the school in 2015 - was adjourned until June 6 on Tuesday.

The court in northwestern Greece heard from three witnesses, including a classmate who said she never saw the 20-year-old being bullied.

Several witnesses in the trial of nine former students of the Dairy School of Ioannina, all Cretans, charged in connection with the suicide of their classmate Vangelis Giakoumakis, testified on Friday to seeing the 20-year-old bullied on many occasions.

A prosecutor in the trial of nine former students of the Dairy School of Ioannina who are charged with causing grievous bodily harm to a classmate who committed suicide expressed frustration on Thursday that several witnesses seemed to have forgotten what they had initially told police in their testimonies.

The trial against nine former students of the Dairy School of Ioannina on charges of causing grievous bodily harm to classmate Vangelis Giakoumakis, a 20-year-old who committed suicide at the school in 2015, is set to start in the northwestern city on Monday.

Judges in the northwestern city of Ioannina on Monday postponed the trial of the father of a college student who committed suicide after being subjected to violent and vicious bullying from a group of peers, accused of attacking the former director of the school where the tragedy transpired in 2015.

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.

An appeals court hearing the case of the 2015 death of 20-year-old Vangelis Giakoumakis on Monday handed a six-month suspended sentence for negligence to a former director of a farming school in Ioannina, northwestern Greece.

The court reduced an earlier two-year suspended sentence.