Amber Haigh murder trial hears police blinded by ‘presumption of guilt’ against Geeveses

Defence counsel makes closing submissions to two-month trial in supreme court in Wagga Wagga

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When Amber Haigh disappeared without trace in 2002, her family, friends, neighbours, even investigating police, were blinded by a “presumption of guilt” against the father of her child and his wife, a presumption for which there was “no evidence”, the New South Wales supreme court has heard.

Haigh, who had an intellectual disability, was 19 when she vanished from the NSW Riverina in June 2002, leaving behind her five-month-old son.

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