Joshlin Smith's disappearance last year sent shockwaves across South Africa. She is yet to be found.

Despite the ruling, authorities are still clueless as to the whereabouts of Joshlin, who disappeared from her Middelpos home in Saldanha in February last year.

Kelly Smith, her boyfriend Jacquen Appollis and their friend Steveno van Rhyn were arrested after Smith's daughter, Joshlin, went missing from outside her home in Saldanha Bay, near Cape Town, in February last year.