The announcement concerning the cause of death of 20-year-old Vangelis Giakoumakis, the missing Ioannina Dairy School student from Crete, will be made on Monday. Coroner Theodoros Vougiouklakis said that findings are to be confirmed in lab tests at around noon.

The unfortunate young Dairy School student’s body was found by a shepherd on early Sunday in a marshy area of Pamvotida Lake, Ioannina, northwestern Greek. The body was 800 meters away from the Dairy School from where he went missing on February 6.

The report is expected to shed light on the cause of death and whether it was a criminal act or a suicide. Vougiouklakis told Proto Thema that the boy could have committed suicide and this possible scenario has not been ruled out. He did stress, however, that the body had postmortem injuries.

Police reports show that a cut was noted on the right wrist, something that makes sense bearing in mind that the young man was left-handed. Photographs of the found near the body were sent to his parents who confirmed, without certainty, that the young man had a similar knife.

The Dairy School administration banned students from leaving their dormitories until a meeting of the council of teachers.

The family is in a state of shock. The boy’s uncle, George Vidiadakis rushed to the scene to identify the body. “We had hope. The worst has come,” he said while trying to find the courage and strength to stand by the side of the young man’s parents.

The funeral will be held at the young man’s birthplace.

Speaking on private MEGA TV, another uncle Marios Myronakis said that the head of the Dairy School knew that the young man was being tortured. The uncle spoke of a soft-spoken boy who kept away from trouble. He went through all forms of bullying but kept the hurt to himself. The uncle spoke of the incident where students tied a towel round his neck and pulled him around. “They could have choked him,” he said.