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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Ben Doherty

Missing teen Amber Haigh was ‘removed from the equation’ after giving birth, court told

Amber Haigh
Amber Haigh has been missing since 2002. Robert and Anne Geeves face one count each of murder over her suspected killing. Photograph: supplied

A couple from country New South Wales used the intellectually disabled teenager Amber Michelle Haigh as a “surrogate mother” so they could have another baby, before they killed her, a court has heard.

Robert and Anne Geeves, now of Harden, face one count each of murder over the suspected killing of Haigh, who disappeared without trace in June of 2002. On the opening day of the trial, the court heard how the couple had deliberately tried to “plant the seed” Haigh was suicidal, and they had set out to have her “removed from the equation”.

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