7NEWS: Married couple accused of murdering young mum Amber Haigh apply for judge-alone trial
Anne Geeves is set to join him in the application and a Supreme Court judge will decide the matter in July.Haigh was reported missing on June 19, 2002, after failing to return to her home at Kingsvale where she and her six-month-old son had been living with the couple.Robert Samuel Geeves and his wife Anne Margaret Geeves have applied for a judge-only trial.
A coronial inquest in 2011 found Haigh died as a result of homicide or other misadventure in June 2002. In 2020, a formal review of the case was conducted under the Homicide Squad’s Unsolved Homicide framework and Strike Force Villamar II began a fresh investigation. NSW Police announced the reward for information about the cold case had been increased from $100,000 to $1 million in April.“I know in my heart that she would never have left her son,” she said in the video.