A married couple from regional New South Wales has been found not guilty of murdering 19-year-old Amber Haigh, who disappeared more than two decades ago. Ms Haigh was living on-and-off with Robert and Anne Geeves at their home, before she went missing in June 2002.
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00:00So today's judgement was the culmination of more than two decades of rumours and speculation
00:09surrounding the disappearance of Amber Haig back in June 2002.
00:15Justice Julia Lonergan handed down her verdict to a packed courtroom and she told the court
00:21that on the balance of probabilities Robert and Anne Jeeves were not guilty of murdering
00:26Amber Haig.
00:28She stressed that cases are not decided on rumours, speculation, innuendo or suspicion
00:35and said that she's decided that the version of events that the Jeeves have put forward,
00:39which is that they dropped Amber Haig off at a Campbelltown railway station, Justice
00:44Julia Lonergan said she believes that may be true.
00:47The courtroom was packed with members of the public, reporters and a few members of both
00:53the Jeeves family and Amber Haig's family.
00:56The room was quiet as Justice Lonergan handed down her verdict, not many people really saying
01:03anything.
01:04There was one woman who had quiet tears rolling down her face and shortly after the judgement
01:10was made, one young man did storm out of the room and had a frustrated yell in the hallway
01:17outside the courtroom as he stormed off.