Western Cape police say they have reached a ‘dead end’ in their investigation into the disappearance of Joshlin Smith.
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‘We followed every lead – but we have come to a dead end. Every lead that has been given to us, we extended our net countrywide, worldwide, not even countrywide, worldwide,’ Provincial Police Commissioner Thembisile Patekile told EWN.
The six-year-old girl reportedly went missing from her home in Saldanha Bay in February. Since then, her mother, Kelly Smith, her boyfriend, Jacquen ‘Boeta’ Appollis and their acquaintances Steveno van Rhyn and Lourentia Lombaard have been arrested and charged with kidnapping and human trafficking.
They appeared in the Vredenburg Magistrates’ Court on Monday and denied selling Joshlin.
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