Amber Haigh was placed in ‘cargo’ section of car to meet ambulance, court hears

Nurse tells NSW supreme court murder trial she offered to let Haigh wait in a spare bedroom but the offer was rejected by Robert Geeves

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Amber Haigh was having trouble walking when she was put in the cargo" section of a two-door car to meet an ambulance, a court has heard.

Giving evidence in the New South Wales supreme court on Tuesday, Catherine Kerr, a women's health nurse said she was in bed at home when Robert Geeves knocked on her back door at 10pm on 19 February 2002, less than a month after Haigh's baby was born. Kerr said Geeves asked to use the phone to call an ambulance.

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