Amber Haigh murder trial: nurse called police over fears teenager might have been held against will by alleged killers

A child and family nurse told a supreme court murder trial that Amber Haigh was ‘quite childlike in her approach to things’A child and family nurse told a supreme court murder trial that Amber Haigh was ‘quite childlike in her approach to things’A nurse who cared for Amber Haigh and her newborn baby called police over fears Haigh might have been held against her will by Robert and Anne Geeves, the couple now on trial for her murder, a court has heard.

The court heard on Wednesday that in the first weeks of her son’s life, Haigh was living between a small flat in the town of Young, her great-aunt’s home outside the village of Kingsvale, and the Geeves’ home next door. “There was a domestic dispute going on in the house, there was a lot of yelling and screaming going on in the kitchen. I found Amber in her bedroom, holding the baby… she looked terrified.In her contemporaneous notes, read in court, Powell recorded: “Amber greatly relieved to be away from the fighting which she said had been happening every time family members visited ”.

Powell gave evidence that Haigh often appeared anxious. “If we asked too much about what was going on in the Geeves house, she was frightened.” The prosecution has alleged in court that Haigh – who had an intellectual disability and was described in court as “very easily misled” – was used by the Geeveses as a “surrogate mother” because they wanted another baby.

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