The NPA has confirmed that Kelly Smith, Steveno van Rhyn, and Jacquin Appollis have filed applications for leave to appeal ...

The attorneys for Kelly Smith, Jacquen Appollis and Steveno Van Rhyn filed the notices for leave to appeal their convictions ...

Judge Nathan Erasmus ruled that Smith, 35, and her two co-accused -- a boyfriend and mutual friend -- also be jailed for life for human trafficking. They were all sentenced to a concurrent 10 ...

Swanepoel was speaking at a webinar the day after Joshlin’s traffickers and kidnappers filed for leave to appeal against ...

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 ...

She remains missing. Judge Nathan Erasmus sentenced Smith and the two men to life in prison for human trafficking, as well as a concurrent 10 years for kidnapping, per CBS News. During the ...

Raquel "Kelly" Smith, 35, was sentenced to life in prison for human trafficking and kidnapping her daughter, Joshlin, who went missing in February 2024, and has yet to be found.

Disturbing footage of a laughing six-year-old girl who was sold “for her eyes and skin” by her own mum left people in a courtroom in tears. Racquel 'Kelly' Smith was convicted of kidnapping and ...

Kelly Smith, Jacquin Appollis and Steveno van Rhyn appeared in court an hour later than they were scheduled to Judge Nathan Erasmus was unhappy with the delay and promised to get to the bottom of ...

JOHANNESBURG, May 29 (Reuters) - A South African mother and two accomplices were sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday for trafficking her then-6-year-old daughter, in a case that gained ...