Couple accused of murdering NSW teen wanted custody of baby, court told

A NSW couple murdered a 19-year-old in order to assume custody of a five-month-old child, a court has been told.

Robert and Anne Geeves, aged in their early 60s, are standing trial in the NSW Supreme Court for the murder of Amber Haigh at Kingsvale, an isolated rural pocket about 15 kilometres south of Young in NSW, between June 1 and June 6, 2002. “Not guilty,” both said on Friday.Justice Julia Lonergan is presiding over the judge-only trial in Wagga Wagga.

“The Crown case theory is that it was always the intention of the Geeves to assume the custody and care of ,” Kerr said.Kerr said the last independently verified sighting of Haigh was at her flat on June 2. Robert Geeves was with her.Haigh, who had an intellectual disability and had been assessed at the age of 18 as having the mental age of a 12 to 13-year-old.She had moved onto the Geeves’ rural property Huntley in 2000, when the Geeves were in their 40s.

She did not kill Haigh and nor did she stand by as her husband killed her, King said, and to her knowledge “Robert Geeves did not kill her”. His client believed locals had been “all too quick to point the finger” at the couple, he said. Public Defender Paul Coady, for Robert Geeves, said his client has “denied being in any way involved in her disappearance or murder”.Of the alleged motive articulated by the Crown, Coady said that there was “insufficient reliable evidence to support such a motive”.

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