News24 | Fortune tellers, TikTokkers, sangomas: Court hears about the extensive search for Joshlin Smith

Accused in Joshlin Smith trial decline to take stand or call witnesses

The three accused in the Joshlin case have spurned taking the stand or calling witnesses – much of the State’s evidence against them will go unchallenged.

Joshlin Smith trial: State expected to conclude its case

News24 | Fortune tellers, TikTokkers, sangomas: Court hears about the extensive search for Joshlin Smith

After arrests in connection with the kidnapping of Joshlin Smith were made in March last year, fortune tellers, TikTokkers and sangomas - all offering to help - crawled out of the woodwork, the investigating officer told the Western Cape High Court, sitting in Saldanha Bay, on Tuesday.

BREAKING: Kelly Smith's lawyer pushes to drop charges

In the case surrounding the disappearance of Joshlin Smith, attorney Rinesh Sivnarain has urged the Western Cape High Court to dismiss all charges against his client, Kelly Smith, the mother of the missing child. The plea comes after the State concluded its case at the White City Multipurpose Centre in Saldanha Bay, where Smith, her boyfriend Jacquen ‘Boeta’ Appollis, and his associate Steveno Van Rhyn stand accused of violating the Prevention a…

Kelly Smith began to cry when parts of videos of her taken in the days after her daughter, Joshlin, then six years old, disappeared, were shown in court on Wednesday.

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The trial into the disappearance of seven-year-old Joshlin Smith continues at the Western Cape High Court sitting in Saldanha Bay on the Cape West Coast.