A retired married couple have been found not guilty of murdering 19-year-old mum Amber Haigh, who disappeared more than two decades ago from regional NSW.
Robert and Anne Geeves, both 64, will walk free after Justice Julia Lonergan acquitted the pair today following a lengthy judge-only trial in the Supreme Court at Wagga Wagga.
The pair were arrested and charged with murder in 2022 after a cold case reward over Haigh's death was increased to $1 million.
Haigh, who had an intellectual disability, had been living at the Geeves' home in Harden before she vanished.
She was last seen at her flat in a nearby town on June 2, 2002.
Medical experts and family evidence shared in court had shown Haigh, someone with the mental capacity of a 12 or 13-year-old, could have been easily led by others.
The Geeves have always maintained their innocence in the teenager's disappearance.
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<h2>Lateef Lawal, the husband of Nollywood actress, <a href="https://www.naijanews.com/topic/Lizzy-Anjorin/">Lizzy Anjorin, </a>is currently embroiled in a land-grabbing dispute.</h2>
<p><strong>Naija News</strong> reports that files from the Magistrate Court in Oyingbo Ebute-Metta listed Lawal among individuals sued for demolishing structures on a property owned by one Faith Ojo.</p>
<p>Lawal purportedly escaped arrest in Ikoyi, Lagos State, on February 5, 2024, while his associate was apprehended and sent to prison.</p>
<p>Involved in the case is one Alhaji Sulaimon of Okun-Ajah, Eti-Osa, Lagos State, and others.</p>
<p>Ojo, in the lawsuit, is identified as a Nigerian businesswoman based in the United States.</p>
<p>The land with plan no “AGA/2582/037J/2020/LA”, the claimant revealed, is located in Okun-Ajah, Eti-Osa Lagos</p>
<p>Among the defendants are Rasheed Olukosi, Muniru Olukosi, Saheed Olukosi, Kareem Wasiu Jagun, Sulaimon Bolaji, Muritala Musbau, and Kehinde Jagun.</p>
<p>They were accused alongside Lawal of demolishing some structures on the land in what Ojo described as “land grabbing” in her suit.</p>
<p>Ojo sought N30 million as compensation and asked that the defendants cover both the cost of litigation and petitioning the police</p>
<p>She sought a “perpetual injunction” against the defendants “from entering, developing, and occupying” the two-plot land.</p>
<p>The case against Lawal is coming against the backdrop of accusations claiming that his wife, Lizzy Anjorin allegedly made a fake mobile banking transfer in a Lagos store.</p>
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