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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Ben Doherty

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

A posed portrait photo of Amber Haigh holding her baby sitting next to Robert Geeves
A child and family nurse told a supreme court murder trial that Amber Haigh was ‘quite childlike in her approach to things’ Photograph: ODPP NSW

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.

Sue Powell told the New South Wales supreme court on Wednesday she visited Haigh’s flat in the Riverina town of Young in February 2002, to be told by a neighbour Haigh was at the Geeves house, and “not allowed to come into town”.

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