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The three accused in the Joshlin Smith kidnapping trial seen appearing before court.
The kidnapping and human trafficking case of Joshlin Smith continues today with the sitting of the Cape High Court at Saldanha Bay on the Cape West Coast.
The trial within a trial centres around the admissibility of confession statements of two of the accused.
They claim police tortured and coerced them into giving the so-called confessions.
Kelly Smith, her boyfriend, Jacquen “Boeta” Appollis and Steveno van Rhyn are on trial.
Seven-year-old Joshlin disappeared from Middlepos informal settlement in February last year.
State witness, Lourentia Lombaard, testified that a day before Joshlin went missing, Kelly Smith told her she had sold her daughter to a sangoma for R20 000.
Meanwhile during his testimony this week, Appollis remained steadfast on his claims that police had assaulted him with batons before he gave a statement in March last year.
