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Legal teams on Thursday continued to argue whether confession statements made by Stevano van Rhyn and Jacquen Appollis can be ...
Jacquen Appollis and Stevano van Rhyn are expected to testify on Friday in a trial within a trial for the court to decide ...
Jacquen ‘Boeta’ Appollis told the court which parts of his allegedly coerced confession were true and which were false ...
Steveno van Rhyn claims police suffocated him with plastic and forced a false confession in the Joshlin Smith case, while ...
Nobahle Mkabayi made the claim during the trial-within-a-trial, which is probing whether statements made by the accused were ...
Jacquin Appollis, one of the accused in the Joslin Smith trial, has taken to the stand to testify about the alleged assault ...
Sergeant Dawid Fortuin took advantage of Steveno van Rhyn’s ‘youth and vulnerability’, according to attorney Nobahle Mkabayi ...
A detective said he sat down with Jacquen ‘Boeta’ Appollis and Steveno van Rhyn when van Rhyn revealed that a woman named ...
Two of the accused in the Joshlin Smith trial take the stand for their statements to be scrutinised. As the sixth week of the ...
A trial within a trial is ongoing to determine whether the confessions made by the accused can be used in the main trial. The ...
A defence lawyer in the Joslin Smith trial claimed that her client was asleep while providing police with a confession, ...
Appollis claims that before his statement, he was allegedly tortured by police and a black bag placed over his head to elicit a confession in the Joshlin Smith case.