‘Incident of extreme violence’ on Geeves property made child protection workers worried for Amber Haigh and her son, court hears

Police files document that a former partner was found to have died from a gunshot wound on his property, court has heard

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Child protection workers were worried about Amber Haigh and her newborn son because of an earlier incident of extreme violence" that occurred at the home of the baby's father when a woman was found tied up in a wheelbarrow with a bag on her head and dead from a gunshot wound, the New South Wales supreme court has heard.

Robert Geeves, who the court has heard fathered Amber Haigh's child, is on trial for Haigh's murder, alongside his wife, Anne Geeves.

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