Amber Haigh was a 19-year-old mother when she vanished from the NSW Riverina in 2002, leaving behind her five-month-old son
Now the father of her child, 64-year-old Robert Geeves, and his wife, Anne Geeves, are facing trial, each charged with her murder. They have both pleaded not guilty.
Petrina Ingram met Haigh in March 2002, after both of their trains were delayed, leaving them stranded at Cootamundra railway station for several hours together, the court heard. The pair had lunch and ice-cream together.
Haigh was travelling to Sydney with her young son, still in a pram, and whom Ingram told the supreme court on Monday Haigh “was clearly besotted with”.
When Ingram complimented Haigh on her pram or blanket – “I can’t remember which” – Haigh replied that it was a gift from the wife of the father of her child.
“I found it shocking, I was shocked by that comment … I said: ‘What? Does she know about the baby?’”
Ingram told the court Haigh talked to her about her relationship with Robert and Anne Geeves.
“She told me that both the husband and wife would come to her place in Young, that they would bring alcohol with them. They would all drink the alcohol until she [Haigh] was drunk and then the wife would go home and that the husband would tie her to the bed and have sex with her.”
Woman tells court about ‘shocking’ conversation she had with missing teenager, after pair got stranded at a train station in New South Wales
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