Joshlin Smith's mother, Kelly Smith, and her co-accused Jacquen Appollis and Steveno van Rhyn were sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of kidnapping and human trafficking for the ...

Racquel Smith, also known as Kelly Smith, was convicted of kidnapping and trafficking her daughter earlier this month. The 35 ...

Despite the court’s decision bringing a degree of legal closure to a year-long investigation, Swanepoel emphasised that the ...

The courts heard from witnesses that Kelly Smith sold Joshlin Smith for her "eyes and skin" to a traditional healer.

On Thursday, her mother, South African woman Racquel "Kelly" Smith, was found guilty of kidnapping and trafficking Joshlin, alongside accomplices, boyfriend Jacquen Appollis and their friend Steveno ...

A South African mother and two accomplices were sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday for trafficking her ...

In a case that has gripped the nation and left a community in perpetual mourning, the search for six-year-old Joshlin Smith ...

Joshlin Smith's heartbroken grandmother Amanda Smith-Daniels made an emotional statement in court as her daughter Racquel was sentenced to life.

The sentencing comes more than a year after Smith's daughter, Joshlin Smith, went missing from her Saldanha Bay home in February 2024. She remains missing. Judge Nathan Erasmus sentenced Smith and ...

Joshlin Smith, 6, disappeared last February, never to be seen again. Her mother, her boyfriend and their friend have recently been convicted of kidnapping and trafficking the young girl, with ...

Racquel 'Kelly' Smith and her boyfriend Jacquen Appollis have been sentenced to life in jail following a six week trial that heard six-year-old Joshlin Smith had been sold to a traditional healer for ...

Joshlin Smith disappeared from her home in Saldanha Bay, South Africa, in February 2024, with it being believed her own mother sold her to a 'healer' ...