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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Ben Doherty

Murder-accused couple spoke about Amber Haigh in the past tense to police, prosecutors allege

Court sketches of Anne and Robert Geeves during the Amber Haigh murder trial in Wagga Wagga, Australia
Court sketches of Anne and Robert Geeves during the Amber Haigh murder trial. Illustration: Leigh Hewitt/The Guardian

As police were still searching for missing teenager Amber Haigh, Robert and Anne Geeves were speaking about her in the past tense in police interviews because they knew she was already dead, prosecutors have argued before the New South Wales supreme court.

In closing submissions to the nine-week trial over Haigh’s alleged murder, the crown prosecutor Paul Kerr argued Justice Julia Lonergan “would be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that Amber Haigh is dead and that she is dead because Robert and Anne Geeves – in the execution of a joint criminal enterprise – murdered her”.

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