According to the witness, Smith, the future of cars and people will be looking for Joshlin, but they could not find it because it would be far away.
Raquel “Kelly” Smith was allegedly planned to sell her daughter Joshlin for R20 000 months for R20 000 months.
Nico Steven Coetzee, who gave birth to the High Court in the Gulf of Saldanha on Wednesday, claimed that he was intimidated in August 49, 2023.
Allegedly, Diazville resident said that he was waiting for people to take the child, but they did not show. According to Coetzee, Smith said he only accepted if they returned to R5 000.
Joshlin, who lost his house on Middelpos on February 19, 2024, was six years old.
Coetzee said he met with Smith in a memorial service in Diazville in 2016. After the service, Diazville and Jacvan and Jacvub wanted to help him find a job he worked as a worker.
Smith alleged forecast: ‘They will seek Joshlin but they will not find it’
Coetzee recalled the match that he was going to work in August 2023 and did not concern when he stained his run. He said he knew Smith with crushing hair.
He still waited for a job, but he lived with a “bad family” and said he was waiting for his children. When he asked where he went, he did not answer.
Smith, in January or February of the year, told Middelpos and Diazville as a movie. He said the future of cars and people will look for Joshlin, but if they were far away, they would not find anything.
Defensive Questions Witness Reliability
On Thursday, Smith’s lawyer Rineesh Sivnarain, cross examiner Coetzee, complicates the reliability of the testimony.
Sivnerain, referring to discrepancies in the COETZEE’s graph, first, in 2016 and in 2023, Smith will meet again and only between the matches between these dates.
Coetzee said, “Rarely and for a long time” and passed the roads with Smith on the streets and said they did brief conversations in these cases. When he knew the defendant well, he said they had a connection over the years.
“We approached a good and called each other ‘homies’.”
Sivnarain, along with allegations that Kelly allegedly sold their children, said SMIT’s talks have already met with him in the commemoration service in 2016.
According to Sivnara, Smith says each other around 2015 or around 2016, but they meet each other in Hopland. Coetzee rejected the truth of this statement.
Coetzee said that there was no reason to get any problems from the suspects and Smith did not recognize the accused twice.
In August 2023, Smith said that his children took care of Jacquen’s Boeta Appollis.
Witness has postponed talks with Smith
Later, Coetzee learned about a missing child in Middelpos, but he realized that he was Joshlin on March 3, 2024 in the Prayer Service in the Public Hall. Then he informed his wife who said he did not want to participate in the case.
“He’s the closest person to me and I told him that it was not a secret from each other.”
He did not say anything about Talking to Smith, because he told anyone because he was arrested because he was afraid of arresting or spreading false rumors.
Judge Nathan Erasmus said they would say that Coetzee said directly from Smith, which he said directly to the police, so there was no risk for him.
Erasmus also doubted why Coetzee was waiting to inform the issue.
From March 6 to March 6, after the prayer service for Joshlin, Coetzee went to the alleged police and said that the child should be sure of the place.
The court did not register the official statement of Coetzee until September 25, 2024.
Smith, Jacquen “Boeta” is charged with Appollis and Steveno Van Rhyn, Joshlin Man theft and human trafficking.
The trial continues.
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