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

Human trafficking expert Dr Marcel van der Watt told the court that ‘trafficking in persons thrives in the shadows, ...

Announcing their sentences on Thursday, high court judge Nathan Erasmus said the fact Kelly Smith, Appollis and Van Rhyn were drug users was no excuse. “There is nothing that I can find that is ...

Kelly Smith was sentenced by a judge alongside two others, her boyfriend and another man, who also received life sentences. All three were convicted earlier this month on kidnapping and human ...

Kelly Smith’s house during the Joshlin Smith kidnapping trial in Saldanha Bay. The wooden shack was later burnt down. Picture: Gallo Images Hours after Joshlin Smith’s mother was found guilty ...

JOHANNESBURG - Now that a judge has found Kelly Smith and her two co-accused guilty of trafficking her daughter, Joshlin, attention turns to sentencing. One legal expert is warning that a heavy ...

That's the view of community members gathered at the Western Cape High Court in Cape Town, where Kelly Smith, her boyfriend, Jacquen Appollis and his friend, Steveno van Rhyn, on Friday heard that ...

The Saldanha Bay woman is accused of selling her child to fuel her drug habit. In her TikTok Live, Mickeyla Daniels – who testified during the trial – called for Kelly Smith to reveal where ...

A woman has appeared in the Vredenburg Magistrate's Court for allegedly torching Joshlin Smith's home. The house was set alight on Friday, hours after Joshlin's mother, Kelly, was found guilty ...

The child’s mother, Kelly Smith, and her co-accused, Jacquen Appollis and Steveno van Rhyn, were convicted of kidnapping and human trafficking last week. Joshlin Smith's mother, Kelly Smith and ...

The jail terms for Racquel "Kelly" Smith, her boyfriend Jacquen ... It is believed that Smith, who was addicted to drugs, needed the money. The sentencing follows an eight-week trial that ...