Alleged kidnapper Sameemah Jacobs back court in bid to amend her bail conditions

Alleged baby snatcher, Sameemah Jacobs, will be back in court on Tuesday after making a request for her bail conditions to be amended to go on a religious excursion.

Jacobs is charged with kidnapping and defeating the ends of justice after allegedly posing as three different women in her plot to abduct a nine-day-old baby.

Police returned the child to its mother after the abduction in the Middestad Mall in June this year.

Jacobs made a brief appearance in the Belville Magistrate's Court last week.

Jacobs told the court that she had handed her Legal Aid lawyer an affidavit for her bail conditions to be amended.

The alleged baby snatcher told magistrate Collin Jacks she had planned to go on a religious excursion in November this year.

However, Jacobs' lawyer was absent from proceedings after being involved in a car accident.

"For the one affidavit I submitted was for the court to please amend my bail conditions because I need to go on a religious excursion from 2 November to 6 November and my bail conditions don't allow me to."

The State requested a postponement for further investigation and for Jacobs' lawyer to be present to submit her request.