An evangelist and part-time handyman says Kelly Smith told him in August 2023 that she is going to have her children taken away, and that she would accept five thousand rand if they did not have the full amount of R20 000.
Nico Steven Coetzee is testifying in the kidnapping and human trafficking trial of Joshlin Smith.
Smith, her boyfriend Jacquen Appollis and Steveno van Rhyn are on trial in the Western Cape High Court sitting in Saldanha on the Cape West Coast.
The child went missing on the 19th of February last year and has still not been found.
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