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

Amber Haigh and Robert Geeves with their son. Geeves and his wife, Anne Geeves, are on trial for Haigh’s alleged murder. Photograph: ODPP NSW

In the months after Amber Haigh disappeared, the father of her infant son – the man now accused of her murder – was resigned to losing custody of the child, but said he was doing his best to “be strong”.

Haigh was a 19-year-old new mother when she vanished without trace from the New South Wales Riverina in June 2002, leaving behind her five-month-old son.