‘She should be alive but she’s not’: judgment looms in Amber Haigh trial decades in the making

Amber Haigh with her son, ‘whom she loved dearly, whom she cherished,’ the NSW supreme court trial of Robert and Anne Geeves heard. Photograph: Director of Public Prosecutions NSW

“Amber Haigh should be alive … but she’s not,” crown prosecutor Paul Kerr told a silent and still courtroom.

“And she’s not alive because Robert Geeves and Anne Geeves wanted her child. So, they murdered her.”