Amber Haigh didn’t want man accused of her murder on their baby’s birth certificate, court hears

Photo of Amber Haigh and Robert Geeves, who is accused with his wife of murdering the missing New South Wales teenager. They deny the charges. Photograph: ODPP NSW

Disappeared teenager Amber Haigh didn’t want to put Robert Geeves’s name on her son’s birth certificate “because of how he treated her” and planned to take her newborn to Queensland to “protect her baby”, a court has heard.

Amber Haigh was a 19-year-old new mother living in the Riverina when she disappeared without trace in June 2002.