‘Incident of extreme violence’ on Geeves property made child protection workers worried for Amber Haigh and her son, court hears

Child protection workers were concerned Amber Haigh, who suffered an intellectual disability, ‘was being held against her will’ in the Geeveses’ home. Photograph: ODPP NSW

Child protection workers were worried about Amber Haigh and her newborn son because of an earlier “incident of extreme violence” that occurred at the home of the baby’s father when a woman was found tied up in a wheelbarrow with a bag on her head and dead from a gunshot wound, the New South Wales supreme court has heard.

Robert Geeves, who the court has heard fathered Amber Haigh’s child, is on trial for Haigh’s murder, alongside his wife, Anne Geeves.