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Beau Lamarre-Condon murder trial live: Accused gives evidence in court for first time
Beau Lamarre-Condon, accused of murdering Jesse Baird and Luke Davies in 2024, is in the witness box for the first time.
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He has pleaded not guilty in the NSW Supreme Court.
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Former police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon has chosen to give evidence in his double murder trial over the deaths of Sydney couple Jesse Baird and Luke Davies.
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The 31-year-old is accused of shooting the pair with his police pistol in Baird's Paddington share house in February 2024.
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The Crown's case is that Mr Lamarre-Condon developed an obsessive and jealous infatuation with Mr Baird after a casual romance during parts of 2023.
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He's pleaded not guilty and is arguing self-defence, with his lawyers previously telling the jury that the deaths were the result of two separate struggles involving the pistol.
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The Supreme Court trial is now in its seventh week and jurors have heard evidence or statements from around 90 witnesses in the Crown case, which closed today.
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Lamarre-Condon's lawyers called him as the first witness in the defence case.
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With a brief beginning of evidence, the court has now adjourned for lunch.
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Lamarre-Condon will be back in the box to continue after the break at 2PM AEDT.
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Lamarre-Condon met Jesse Baird in 2022
He says he met Jesse Baird in early October 2022 at Universal nightclub on Oxford Street in Sydney.
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"For the months of October to November 2022 I would say we were friends with a sexual relationship.
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"December 2022 that's when we started going on romantic dates."
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He said he would show Baird, who was new to Sydney, around town.
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He was very outgoing and into sporting activities and willing to give anything a crack.
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Time at Youth Command
In 2021, Lamarre-Condon started worked at Youth Command in Glebe.
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"I wanted to deter youth crime ... that's something I was passionate about," he said.
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He said he wanted to escape the "torment and bullying" he experienced at the Surry Hills police command.
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Eight months later, the same commanders "transferred over" to Youth Command as well.
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Key Event
Beau Lamarre-Condon speaking
Beau Lamarre-Condon is the witness box.
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He is being asked about his experience on the police force and some of the graphic scenes he had witnessed, including a colleague who took their own life at work.
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What he told a friend in jail cont.
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In the audio recording of the visit, Lamarre-Condon continued telling a friend about February 19, 2024 — the day Baird and Davies died.
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- He says after seeing the delivery driver, he put on a jacket "pretending" to be one as well
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Lamarre-Condon knocked three times, he says, on Baird's front door: "What do I do, thinking no-one's home?
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The accused says he was unaware Baird was moving out, and called out to see if anyone was home
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He says he was looking for his "stuff" and says he can't discuss the specifics when he went into the kitchen where "shit's going down"
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Baird allegedly was holding a knife while packing boxes, Lamarre-Condon says
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He denies "technically" breaking and entering because Baird got a key cut for him in the past
- Lamarre-Condon says he "panicked" because the cops wouldn't "believe" him
Lamarre-Condon is in the witness box in court today to give evidence.
What he told a friend in jail
Also tendered in court is a 51-minute recorded conversation between Lamarre-Condon and a friend in December 2024.
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The friend can't be identified for legal reasons.
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In the terse exchange, he says he pleaded guilty to manslaughter in relation to Jesse Baird "only and no-one else".
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He also said:
- Baird had blocked him "on everything" and the accused said he had no way to ask how to get his own belongings back from the Paddington terrace in February 2024
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He says he made a joke about a body fitting in a surfboard bag, but "I would do the same thing tomorrow" because of his sense of humour and that he had previously bought Baird a surf board
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The accused says he had his police-issue gun on him "legally and lawfully" because he does a "lot of extra shifts" for events
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He says he drove to Baird's in a hire car his mum had because her vehicle was in for a service, and couldn't have taken his Tesla because the surf board he wanted to retrieve wouldn't fit
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Lamarre-Condon couldn't tell if Baird was in the house or not and says he didn't want to knock to avoid confrontation and escalation to police
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He says he left to return his gun, but on the way ran into an Uber Eats delivery driver in a high-vis jacket
"This right here is why everything kicked off," he says.
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Beau Lamarre-Condon's handwritten statement
Beau Lamarre-Condon has pleaded not guilty to murder and is arguing self-defence.
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We've heard snippets of what he told friends in days after Jesse Baird and Luke Davies's deaths in court.
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The jury has also seen a written statement the accused made in June 2025.
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…and 12 more, not listed.
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