Amber Haigh didn’t want man accused of her murder on their baby’s birth certificate, court hears

Court hears young mother wanted to leave to Queensland to protect her baby'

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Disappeared teenager Amber Haigh didn't want to put Robert Geeves's name on her son's birth certificate because of how he treated her" and planned to take her newborn to Queensland to protect her baby", a court has heard.

Amber Haigh was a 19-year-old new mother living in the Riverina when she disappeared without trace in June 2002.

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