Claims extracted
22
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
9%
2 of 22 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
66/100
The Guardian's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
13
Crime & Law
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
Former officer Beau Lamarre-Condon has alleged he heard homophobic abuse when working for New South Wales police, as the 31-year-old gave evidence in his double murder trial in Sydney.
asserted
old → allege → Sydney
Lamarre-Condon is accused of fatally shooting couple Jesse Baird and Luke Davies with his police service weapon in Baird’s Paddington home on 19 February 2024.
asserted
Condon → accuse → February
He has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and one charge of aggravated break and enter.
asserted
He → plead → break
Lamarre-Condon on Thursday started giving evidence at the NSW supreme court in front of a 15-person jury.
asserted
Condon → start → jury
Wearing a light grey suit, a dark coloured tie and a white collared shirt, Lamarre-Condon vowed to tell the truth.
asserted
Condon → wear → truth
He accused a former supervisor of making homophobic remarks while he was working as an openly gay police officer.
asserted
he → accuse → officer
“He would say things such as ‘I used to bash gay people while in Jindabyne’,” Lamarre-Condon told the court on Thursday.
asserted
Condon → say → Thursday
On one occasion, when responding to a domestic violence report, the supervisor allegedly said “Let’s go get these fucking faggots”, the jury was told.
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jury → respond → faggots
Lamarre-Condon told the jury on another occassion a coworker shot himself in the head.
asserted
coworker → tell → head
He recalled in court the last conversation the pair had.
asserted
pair → recall → conversation
“I said ‘How are you’ and he told me he was good.
asserted
he → say → me
Nothing appeared out of normal to me, nothing about his behaviour suggested what he was about to do,” Lamarre-Condon told the court.
uncertain
Condon → appear → court
“[He later] went to his desk, took out his gun whilst off duty and shot himself in the head at work.”
asserted
He → go → work
Lamarre-Condon’s coworkers found their deceased colleague, the court heard.
asserted
court → find → colleague
Asked about his relationship with Baird, Lamarre-Condon told the jury: “For the months of October and November 2022 it was friends with a sexual relationship.
asserted
it → ask → relationship
When we would meet up it was of the sexual nature.
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it → meet → nature
By December 2022, that’s when we began going on romantic dates.
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we → ’ → dates
Prosecution lawyers wrapped up their case earlier on Thursday morning.
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lawyers → wrap → morning
They called more than 50 witnesses, played hours of CCTV footage and shared pages of social media messages over the first seven weeks of the trial.
asserted
They → call → trial
Lamarre-Condon’s defence team has previously claimed Baird and Davies were accidentally shot in two separate struggles with the accused when he was acting in “self-defence”.
asserted
he → claim → defence
The officer cleaned up the scene and disposed of the bodies afterwards because he “panicked considerably”, the defence lawyer John Stratton SC previously said.
asserted
lawyer → clean → bodies
The trial before Justice Natalie Adams continues.
asserted
trial → continue → Adams
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