Accused killer Beau Lamarre-Condon has denied stalking former TV presenter Jesse Baird and misusing his authority as a police officer to obtain CCTV footage of him with another man.
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Condon → accuse → man
During cross-examination in his Supreme Court double murder trial on Tuesday, the former NSW police officer rejected a suggestion by the prosecution that he was obsessed with Baird “right from the start”.
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he → reject → start
Obsessed, no,” the accused said.
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accused → obsess → ?
The 31-year-old has pleaded not guilty to murdering Baird, 26, a former Network Ten producer and presenter, and Davies, 29, a Qantas flight attendant, at Baird’s Paddington share house on February 19, 2024.
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old → plead → February
He has also pleaded not guilty to breaking into Baird’s home six months earlier on August 17, 2023, and stealing his wallet and mobile phone.
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He → plead → wallet
The day before the alleged break-in, Lamarre-Condon had texted Baird: “Let’s do a walk and lunch catchup after next weekend ...
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’s → allege → weekend
Baird replied at 1.49pm the following day that it “was good to see you too” but did not reply to the suggestion of a catchup.
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it → reply → catchup
The accused sent a screenshot of the messages to a friend, who described Baird’s reply as “so savage”.
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who → accuse → reply
Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield, SC, suggested this was “a very strong rejection of your advance to him”.
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this → suggest → him
Lamarre-Condon agreed that this is “how I interpreted it” but said the men spoke again that day.
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men → agree → it
“Isn’t it the case that after that … you decided that you will go and enter his property with the key that you had surreptitiously copied,” Hatfield said.
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Hatfield → decide → that
“That’s not correct, we had further communication on this day when he did invite me to stay the night,” Lamarre-Condon said.
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Condon → ’ → night
He told the court last week that he used a key Baird left out for him that night, but put a bobby pin in the lock because he wanted to look through Baird’s phone outside while he slept.
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he → tell → phone
“I wanted to see if Jesse was in a relationship [with another man] or not,” he said.
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he → want → man
“If he was to wake up and come outside, he would see the bobby pin [and] not be under the impression that it was me going through his phone.”
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it → wake → phone
Baird woke up and chased him out of the home without recognising him, the court has heard, and reported the alleged break-in.
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court → wake → in
NSW Police photographed a bobby pin in Baird’s front door lock.
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Police → photograph → lock
Lamarre-Condon has told the court he met Baird in October 2022 and their relationship turned romantic in December, but they were not exclusive.
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they → tell → December
Their relationship ended temporarily in April 2023 and resumed in about August or September before Baird broke up with him in November.
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Baird → end → November
The accused had told the court last week that their relationship resumed in late June, but said on Tuesday that this was inaccurate and an honest mistake.
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this → accuse → Tuesday
The court heard that Lamarre-Condon texted another friend two days before the alleged break-in: “I’m going to run into old mate today.
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I → hear → mate
Do you wanna come?
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you → come → ?
Hatfield put to him that he framed the message “as if you know you will” run into Baird.
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you → put → Baird
The accused said that it was just “wishful thinking”.
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it → accuse → ?
He denied a suggestion by Hatfield that he knew Baird’s location and was able to monitor him on the Snapchat app.
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he → deny → app
Texts tendered in court confirmed that he saw Baird later that day.
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he → tender → Baird
Was it sus at all or did you make it look like a complete coincidence haha,” a friend texted.
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friend → make → coincidence
“Not sus at all,” he replied.
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he → reply → ?
“This reflects that you were stalking him and monitoring his location,” Hatfield said.
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Hatfield → reflect → location
“I don’t agree,” Lamarre-Condon said.
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Condon → agree → ?
The court has heard that police found CCTV footage on Lamarre-Condon’s iCloud account of Baird on a date with another man at the Royal Hotel in Paddington on May 19, 2023.
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police → hear → May
The accused said last week that he came across the footage while helping police colleagues with official duties, following a potential assault nearby.
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he → accuse → assault
Baird had invited him to “swing by” the hotel in uniform
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Baird → invite → uniform
while he was working
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he → work → ?
, he said.
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he → say → ?
“Is the reality that you were stalking Jesse Baird and also misusing your authority as a policeman to access CCTV of him?” Hatfield said.
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Hatfield → stalk → him
“I did not,” Lamarre-Condon replied.
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Condon → do → ?
The accused testified on Tuesday that he went into Baird’s house using a key in about April or early May 2023, after the first break-up, and ate “an Easter egg that I had gotten Jesse”.
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I → accuse → Jesse
He said he retrieved some of his clothing and a Polaroid camera he had bought them both.
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he → say → clothing
“I did not ask direct permission there and then if I could enter his house, no,” he said.
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he → ask → house
…and 14 more, not listed.
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