A friend of Beau Lamarre-Condon has described the moment he arrived at her house unannounced to clean the back of the van used to move the bodies of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies.
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he → describe → Baird
The former police officer has pleaded not guilty to murdering his ex Baird and Davies in 2024.
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officer → plead → 2024
The bodies of the men, aged in their 20s, were found at a rural property inside surfboard bags.
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bodies → age → bags
One friend, known by the pseudonym Fiona Rosso, became highly emotional giving evidence at the former officer’s New South Wales supreme court trial on Wednesday.
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friend → know → Wednesday
She described drinking champagne and unpacking groceries when Lamarre-Condon unexpectedly turned up at her house days after the incident.
“He started crying and he said words like, ‘I’m saying goodbye, I’ve come to say goodbye’,” she told the jury.
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she → describe → jury
“I was like, ‘He’s going to kill himself.’”
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He → go → himself
He then explained he’d “done something bad” and asked whether she’d seen the news.
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she → explain → news
At the time, police had publicly announced they were looking into the disappearance of Baird and Davies.
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they → announce → Baird
Lamarre-Condon then asked her to search the definition of schizophrenia online, telling her he’d had an out-of-body experience and could not control his actions, the woman said.
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woman → ask → actions
She recounted later sitting on the footpath in shock with a glass of champagne as he scrubbed the back of his van.
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he → recount → van
“I didn’t look into the van at all,” she told the jury.
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she → look → jury
“I just remember sitting there thinking, ‘What the fuck.’”
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I → sit → fuck
Lamarre-Condon claims he killed the men in self-defence after entering their terrace to retrieve his belongings.
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he → claim → belongings
His offer to plead guilty to Baird’s manslaughter was rejected by prosecutors.
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offer → plead → prosecutors
Rosso said she tried to keep things calm and normal while Lamarre-Condon was at her home out of fear he would react or retaliate against her.
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he → say → her
She told the jury he described driving two-and-a-half hours with another female friend to dispose of the bodies in a dam.
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he → tell → dam
He also allegedly mentioned an earlier occasion when he’d shown Baird his police firearm at the now-deceased man’s Sydney home.
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he → mention → home
Baird accidentally let off a round and the hole had to be patched up, Rosso said she was told.
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she → let → round
“I was like, ‘Oh my god, you’re basically telling me that you’ve killed Jesse,’” she said.
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she → tell → Jesse
She also testified that Lamarre-Condon’s mother had texted him the code word “hot chocolate” meaning police had visited her home after the alleged murders.
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police → testify → murders
She recalled a visit by the former youth command officer about a week before the incident to go over lines for an acting class at her home.
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She → recall → home
He went off script, asking if she would help bury a body for him, she said.
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she → go → him
But she did not interpret the question as literal.
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she → interpret → question
The crown alleges Lamarre-Condon killed Baird “execution-style” at close range through a plan borne of a jealous obsession, before shooting Davies to eliminate a witness.
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Condon → allege → witness
Months before the alleged murders, Baird blocked the then-police officer after discovering he had lied about being sent flowers on Instagram.
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he → allege → Instagram
Lamarre-Condon allegedly enlisted the help of his mother to help cover up the lie.
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Condon → enlist → lie
Rosso also relayed a text message Lamarre-Condon sent after being blocked, calling Baird a manipulative player.
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Condon → relay → Baird
“You strung me along and emotionally destroyed me,” he wrote.
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he → string → me
“You intentionally hurt people and don’t have respect for anybody but yourself.”
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You → hurt → yourself
The trial before Justice Natalie Adams continues.
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trial → continue → Adams
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