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Joshlin Smith’s mother denies being calm and seemingly unconcerned

‘More concerned about a gas cylinder than her missing six-year-old daughter’

Day two of the kidnapping and human trafficking trial of Joshlin Smith on the Cape west coast saw her mother — accused of kidnapping and human trafficking — challenge police testimony about her calm demeanour while searching for her daughter

Constable Yanga Gongotha, the first witness in the circuit court sitting of the Western Cape high court in Saldanha Bay, testified on Monday that Racquel Chantel Smith told him her boyfriend had been looking after the child, but both were missing when she got home.

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