Joshlin Smith Trial. Former co-accused turned the state witness continues testimony

Posted on March 14, 2025 by Online Niel

Joshlin Smith Trial. Former co-accused turned the state witness continues testimony

Carlo PetersenMarch 14, 2025 | 7:16

Joshlin’s mother, Kelly Smith, Jacquen Appollis and Stevano Van Rhyn are experiencing charges of kidnapping and trafficking in the girl’s disappearance.

Joshlin Smith is missing, 6 years old. Image: Unit of missing people from Western Cape/provided.

Cape Town – a former accused who transformed the state witness is to continue his testimony into the Joshlin Smith trial on Friday.

Joshlin’s mother, Kelly Smith, Jacquen Appollis and Stevano Van Rhyn are experiencing charges of kidnapping and trafficking in the girl’s disappearance.

The accused is tried at the High Court of Western Cape, located in the Multipurpose Center of Saldanha Bay.

Charges of kidnapping and trafficking in people againT Lourencia Lombaard They were withdrawn last year after deciding to transform the state witness.

Lombaard took the position briefly on Thursday to testify against Smith, Appolis and Van Rhyn.

Earlier this week, preacher Steven Coetzee told the court about Smith’s intention to sell his three children for R20,000.

This is the case of the state that the accused sold to Joshlin to an unknown woman in a white vehicle.

Smith would have met the woman the day before Joshlin disappeared before returning home with a pack of money.

Lombaard said in court on the same day when he was about to visit Smith, he saw a white Bakkie parked next to Smith’s cabinet.