Prior to her charges being dropped, prosecutors alleged that Ms Smith had instructed Mr Appollis and another of the accused, Stefano van Rhyn, to sell Joslin to a traditional healer for 20,000 ...

Ms Smith's daughter, Joslin, disappeared outside her home in Saldanha Bay, near Cape Town. The four accused appeared in court, but were not asked to plead in a case that has transfixed South Africans.

A frantic search is under way for six-year-old Joslin Smith, who went missing on 19 February South Africa's navy has joined the search for a six-year-old girl which has transfixed the country.