Police believed woman didn’t understand ‘the gravity of the situation’ and health workers worried she and her baby were not safe
Among the exhibits tendered to the court are letters written by Amber Haigh in the days and weeks before she disappeared.Among the exhibits tendered to the court are letters written by Amber Haigh in the days and weeks before she disappeared.Documents tendered to court suggest the new mother was ringed by chaos and confusion, being pushed and pulled between three houses, and feeling she belonged nowhere.
The last independent sighting of Haigh was three days earlier, in the company of Robert Geeves in the town of Young.Among more than 130 exhibits tendered to the court are letters Haigh wrote in the days and weeks before she disappeared. “I see you asleep, you look like your daddy. You laying with your mum. I know you love your mum, sometimes I think you love her more then me and I feel like I’m your sister not your mummy.
But two days later, on 5 February, a child and family health nurse, Sue Powell, raised a “concern for welfare” note with NSW police because Haigh and her baby had failed to keep an appointment. “She was confronted by a very loud and angry verbal argument between two other family members … Amber Haigh was obviously in distress at the situation,” Powell’s notes read.
Under cross-examination from defence counsel, Powell agreed that Haigh’s bedsit flat was “chaotic”, with clothes strewn everywhere and an untidy kitchen, and that she needed significant “assistance” parenting her infant. Robert Geeves had brought “basic food items” to Haigh’s flat, her cross-examination heard.Robert and Anne Geeves walked into Young police station on the evening of 19 June 2002 to report Haigh missing.
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