Missing six-year-old Joshlin Smith’s mother Racquel ‘Kelly’ Smith, together with her accomplices, are to appeal against their ...

Kelly Smith and two others involved in Joshlin Smith's 2024 disappearance were convicted on kidnapping and trafficking charges on Friday Executive Mayor Andrè Truter Facebook A 6-year-old girl ...

Smith was present in court and sat through the hour-long proceeding with an impassive gaze. Racquel "Kelly" Smith, the mother of Joshlin Smith, at her sentencing in the Western Cape High Court in ...

According to the State’s summary of facts, Joshlin and her two siblings – aged 11 and two years old – lived with Smith and her boyfriend Appolis in Middelpos, Saldanha.

Kelly Smith, her boyfriend Jacquen Appollis and their friend Steveno Van Rhyn were convicted of kidnapping and trafficking the girl, Joshlin Smith, after she disappeared from a small town in the ...

As the trial in the Joshlin Smith disappearance concluded, the search for the young girl from Saldanha, Western Cape, remains ongoing. On Thursday, May 29, Judge Nathan Erasmus sentenced Jacquen ...

Kelly Smith, the mother of Joshlin Smith, attends her sentencing at the Western Cape High Court in Saldanha Bay, South Africa, on May 29, 2025. Sumaya Hisham/Reuters. Reuters — ...

Joshlin Smith, then 6, disappeared from her home in the small town of Middelpos, Saldanha Bay, in Western Cape province on February 19, 2024, and a nationwide search began. She has not been found. 4 ...

Joshlin's teacher then alleged in court that Smith had told her during the search that her daughter was already "on a ship, inside a container, and they were on the way to West Africa".

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.

Although missing Joshlin Smith's dad, Jose Emke, and grandmother, Lauretta Yon, had braced themselves for the first week of the trial, nothing could have prepared them for the shocking revelation that ...

Joshlin Smith, then 6, disappeared from her home in the small town of Middelpos, Saldanha Bay, in Western Cape province on February 19, 2024 and a nationwide search began.