Woman accused of murdering teenager Amber Haigh threatened to take her baby, court hears

The exterior of the Wagga courthouse where Robert Geeves and his wife Anne are facing the supreme court charged with Haigh’s murder.The exterior of the Wagga courthouse where Robert Geeves and his wife Anne are facing the supreme court charged with Haigh’s murder.Anne Geeves, accused with her husband of murdering teenager Amber Haigh more than two decades ago, threatened the young mother she would take her newborn baby from her, a court has heard.

The prosecution has alleged in court that Amber Haigh was used by the Geeves as a “surrogate mother” because they wanted another baby, and, once Haigh’s baby was born - fathered by Robert Geeves -The court has heard previously Haigh was an intellectually disabled teenager from Sydney who had endured a “dysfunctional upbringing” and who had moved to the farming hamlet of Kingsvale, in the Riverina, to live with her great aunt in the late 1990s.

The Geeves reported Haigh missing a fortnight later, on 19 June 2002. In 2011, a coroner ruled Haigh had died from “homicide or misadventure” sometime in 2002. Her body has never been found.

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