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Steveno van Rhyn continues his testimony in the Joshlin Smith trial, alleging police coercion and torture during his ...
Steveno van Rhyn testified in the Western Cape High Court on Tuesday about his alleged kidnapping and torture by men he ...
Confession statements by two accused in the Joshlin Smith kidnapping and human trafficking trial will be admitted as evidence ...
The Western Cape High Court, currently sitting in Saldanha Bay, is holding a trial-within-a-trial to decide whether ...
Jacquen Appollis and Steveno van Rhyn will find out whether their disputed confessions will be used in the main Joshlin Smith ...
Co-accused Jacquen Appollis and Steveno van Rhyn claim they were tortured to make the confessions before their arrests.
On Wednesday, accused number two in the trial, Steveno van Rhyn, was on the stand to testify in a trial within a trial.
Steveno van Rhyn detailed alleged police torture as the trial-within-a-trial continued in the Western Cape high court ...
JUDGE Nathan Erasmus yesterday told prosecutors not to trap Joshlin Smith co-accused Steveno van Rhyn with tricky questions.
Steveno van Rhyn, one of the accused in the Joslin Smith trial, alleged that police tortured him and then told him what to ...
The last few weeks in the Joshlin Smith trial have been hearing testimony about the admissibility of confessions extracted from Jacquen Appollis and Steveno van Rhyn.
Brigadier Leon Hanana from the South African Police Service denied that the accused, Jacquin Appollis, were tortured to obtain confessions from them.