Still Missing Australia - Amber Haigh, 19, still missing, NSW, 5 June 2002 *Arrests*

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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 (most days)”.

The court heard that later in February 2002, Haigh called Powell asking if she could return to the Geeves home. Powell gave evidence she told Haigh it was “her choice” where she lived but that, in Powell’s professional opinion, “it was safer for her and her baby to stay at her flat in town”.

Asked why she held that opinion, Powell told the court: “I strongly felt that she was being taken advantage of. I felt that this was an arranged pregnancy”.

Powell told the court she believed Haigh was vulnerable because “she was quite childlike in her approach to things”.

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.”

Powell said Haigh told her during a meeting about her baby’s health and ongoing care: “‘Robert decides this’, or ‘Robert decides that’. The commonest comment I heard was ‘Robert wouldn’t like that’.”

Powell told the court she had repeated contact with police about Haigh and her baby, as well as with the department of community services, and disability services.

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 the New South Wales supreme court that she strongly felt Amber Haigh was being ‘taken advantage of’

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This is such a sad sad case.

Thankyou Nurse Powell for trying.

 

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Amber Haigh showed cousin bruises on wrists she said were from being tied up by Robert Geeves, court hears

Jackie Winn tells court she warned Haigh to stay away from Robert because of alleged previous incidents at his property

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Amber Haigh showed cousin bruises on wrists she said were from being tied up by Robert Geeves, court hears​

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Haigh’s cousin testified she warned her “naive” relative to stay away from the man, Robert Geeves, because of his previous alleged incidents at his property. In one she said that she had heard, two girls were “kidnapped”, tied up and put in a silo. In another, a woman was allegedly fatally shot in the face.

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She told the court she had heard of two previous alleged incidents at the Geeveses’ property.

“I knew of incidents that happened years ago, two things: about the young girls, they were kidnapped and put in a silo, tied up.

“And Janelle … it was in the paper that she had shot herself through the face.”

Winn was asked: “Did that cause you to be worried about Robert Geeves?”

“Yes … people would talk about it.”

 

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Amber Haigh wanted to make a will because she feared baby’s father would ‘end her life’, court told

A paralegal gave evidence that the soon-to-be teenage mother had walked into the law firm wanting to safeguard her unborn child

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Amber Haigh wanted to make a will because she feared baby’s father would ‘end her life’, court told​

A paralegal gave evidence the soon-to-be teenage mother had walked into the law firm wanting to safeguard her unborn child

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In the fourth week of the Geeveses’ trial for murder, the former paralegal Rebecca Pisaturo-McMillan gave evidence that Haigh, then four months pregnant, walked into a law firm in the NSW town of Young in August 2001.

Pisaturo-McMillan met with Haigh, and a file note made that day by Pisaturo-McMillan was read into evidence:

“Is four months pregnant, would like to make enforceable in event anything happen to her: child to be awarded to aunty and two cousins (16 and 17 years), ? [question] as to price (father in prison, drug addict, mother unknown).

“Father of child has been in jail. Murder?”

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“She described that it would be the father of the child, who had told her, if she was ever pregnant, that she would not live beyond the birth of that child – that he would end her life,” she told the court.

“She was quite convinced that this would happen. It wasn’t if or but or a maybe.”

Haigh also said the father of her child had threatened her that he had been in jail for murder previously, the court heard.

The law firm, Carmody Crampton Solicitors, ultimately drew up a will for Haigh, nominating her aunt Patricia Haigh as guardian of her child.

Pisaturo-McMillan was a witness to Haigh signing it.

 

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Amber Haigh was placed in ‘cargo’ section of car to meet ambulance, court hears

Nurse tells NSW supreme court murder trial she offered to let Haigh wait in a spare bedroom but the offer was rejected by Robert Geeves

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Amber Haigh was placed in ‘cargo’ section of car to meet ambulance, court hears​

Nurse tells NSW supreme court murder trial she offered to let Haigh wait in a spare bedroom but the offer was rejected by Robert Geeves

Wed 10 Jul 2024 15.38 AEST

Kerr said Haigh, who suffered from epilepsy, appeared “in a lot of discomfort” that night and told Kerr she felt as if she was having a fit.

“She sat down very carefully … Almost as if she’d only just had the baby,” Kerr told the court.

Kerr asked if she could lay Haigh down on a spare bed until the ambulance arrived but she told the court “Robert didn’t want that to happen”.

“He just wanted to get her back in the vehicle and take her up to the road. Our driveway at that stage was about 400m long,” she said.

Kerr said she assisted Amber along her veranda and down a few steps to the vehicle as she “wasn’t moving very freely”.

Then Kerr said Robert Geeves assisted her into the back of the vehicle, “not the back seat, in the back of the vehicle, so where you would put cargo”.



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“There were blankets. Amber sat very carefully,” she said.

Although it was February, Kerr said it was cool and she offered another wrap for the baby but it was declined and they went back to the road to meet the ambulance.

 

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Murder trial hears Amber Haigh made a will as she feared the father of her child would 'end her life'

A former legal secretary has told the Supreme Court that missing NSW woman Amber Haigh believed her "life would be taken" by Robert Geeves after she gave birth.

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Amber Haigh made a will fearing Robert Geeves would 'end her life' after giving birth, court hears​

Missing New South Wales woman Amber Haigh wanted to make a will because she feared Robert Geeves would "end her life" after she gave birth, a witness has told the Supreme Court.

Rebecca Pisaturo-McMillan, a former legal secretary with a law firm in Young, testified that Ms Haigh attended the office in August 2001 to make the will.

Ms Pisaturo-McMillan said Ms Haigh was pregnant at the time, and claimed she needed the document "for the safeguard of her child".

"[Ms Haigh] was very straightforward and adamant that once her child was born her life would be taken," Ms Pisaturo-McMillan said.

 

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Now, 22 years since her disappearance, the father of her child, 64-year-old Robert Geeves, and his wife, Anne Geeves, are on trial for her murder. Both have pleaded not guilty.

Under cross-examination in the New South Wales supreme court on Tuesday, Jacqueline Thompson, a former department of community services (Docs) child protection worker, was taken to file notes from a home visit she made to the Geeves’s home on 30 July 2002, a month after Haigh disappeared

Man accused of murdering Amber Haigh ‘resigned’ to losing custody of her baby after disappearance, court hears

Robert Geeves was trying to ‘be strong’ after 19-year-old who he fathered a baby with went missing, murder trial hears

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Murder trial hears mum spoke of being tied up, assaulted after sex caught on hidden camera

Amber Haigh allegedly told her third cousin that Robert Geeves tied her up and performed sexual acts on her after he uncovered footage from a hidden camera, a court has heard.

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Court hears Amber Haigh claimed Robert Geeves sexually abused her after sex caught on camera​

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Amber Haigh once claimed Robert Geeves tied her up and sexually abused her after she was caught on a hidden camera having sex with a relative, a murder trial has heard.

Paul Harding, who was the missing woman's third cousin, appeared as a witness at the Supreme Court in Wagga Wagga on Thursday.

 

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Amber Haigh's accused murderer confessed to killing previous partner, murder trial hears

A neighbour of missing mother Amber Haigh says Robert Samuel Geeves told her and Ms Haigh "about how he killed his ex-wife".

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The man accused of murdering missing teenager Amber Haigh confessed to her and a neighbour that he killed a former partner, a Supreme Court trial has heard.

Cindy Brown, who lived in the same block of units as Ms Haigh, told the court that Robert Samuel Geeves talked "about how he killed his ex-wife" in a conversation with her and Ms Haigh.

 

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Amber Haigh murder trial: CCTV with potential vital clues lost forever, court hears

Robert Geeves, who is accused of teenage mother’s murder, waited 14 days to report her missing, court hears

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Any CCTV footage that might have captured Amber Haigh’s last movements was lost because it was a fortnight before she was reported missing, and days later before any vision was requested by police, the NSW supreme court has heard.

Prosecutors also argued in court that the vanished teenager was not reported missing by the father of her baby – the man now accused of her murder – until others raised concerns she had not been seen.

 

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Police claimed Anne Geeves was the ‘mastermind’ in the alleged murder of Amber Haigh, court hears

Detective in charge of investigating Haigh’s disappearance told the court he regarded the case as a potential murder almost ‘from the outset’

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Police claimed Anne Geeves was the ‘mastermind’ in the alleged murder of Amber Haigh, court hears​

Detective in charge of investigating Haigh’s disappearance told the court he regarded the case as a potential murder almost ‘from the outset’

“The whole basis of Mr Geeves having a sexual relationship with Amber was to extract a child from her, and keep the child.”

He told the court he believed “Anne Geeves was the mastermind”.

Also Tuesday, the court heard the investigation into Haigh’s disappearance was hampered by police failures and the delay in reporting her missing.