Captain Wesley Lombaard started his pivotal testimony at the Western Cape High Court into the disappearance of Joshlin Smith. The member of the Western Cape Organised Crime Unit’s Anti-Kidnapping ...

Rinesh Sivnarain, lawyer for Kelly Smith, the mother of missing Joshlin, started his cross-examination of Lourentia (Rens) Lombaard, a friend of Smith’s, on Wednesday. Lombaard was previously arrested ...

Kelly Smith's lawyer pointed out contradictions in Lombaard's previous statements, noting she failed to tell the truth several times. Rinesh Sivnarain, lawyer for Kelly Smith, the mother of ...

This comes amid allegations by state witness Laurentia Lombaard that Kelly accused her of having an affair with her boyfriend, Jacquin “Boeta” Appollis. Kelly, Boeta, and a third accused ...

They have been in custody since their arrest in March 2024, a month after Joslin disappeared. Lombaard, who turned state witness in October 2024 after the state provisionally withdrew her, has been ...

During her testimony, Lombaard maintained Joshlin's mother and two co-accused Jacquen Appollis and Stevano van Rhyn were complicit in Joshlin's disappearance. Former accused in the Joshlin Smith ...

The cross-examination of Lourentia Lombaard, the key state witness in the Joshlin Smith kidnapping and human trafficking trial, continues at the Western Cape high court sitting in Saldanha Bay.

Lawyers for the accused one and two grilled Lombaard about inconsistencies in her statement to the police. Accused two Steveno Van Rhyn’s lawyer says her client denies that he was part of Kelly ...

Joshlin Smith’s mother Kelly Smith has denied claims by the State’s star witness Laurentia Lombaard that she sold her child to a sangoma. More than a year after Joshlin Smith’s disappearance ...

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Lourentia Lombaard attributed her silence and omissions to fear, anger and drug use — as well as a promised payment of R1 000 for her silence. The matter is being heard in the Western Cape high ...

Lourentia (Rens) Lombaard, the state’s key witness in the Joshlin Smith trial, was on Tuesday questioned about whether she was able to see the missing girl’s mother, Kelly Smith, speaking to a ...