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Beau Lamarre-Condon, a Sydney police officer, allegedly told a friend months before the murders that if he killed someone, he would dispose of their belongings in a dumpster and hide their bodies in bushland. This statement was made at a dinner in May 2023, according to testimony from Lamarre-Condon's close friend Georgia Cook during his trial for the February 19, 2024 murders of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies. The prosecution claims that Lamarre-Condon planned the murders early in 2024 and followed through with these details by dumping Baird’s belongings into a skip bin and hiding the bodies near a monastery in Bungonia, about 200km from Sydney.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-09-28,
using this article's own text rather than the other coverage of the
same event (that is the story summary below).
Story summary
Beau Lamarre-Condon, a former Sydney police officer, is on trial for allegedly murdering Jesse Baird and his boyfriend Luke Davies in February 2024. The prosecution claims that Lamarre-Condon harbored an obsessive infatuation with Baird and broke into his home multiple times. During the trial at the NSW Supreme Court, a friend named Georgia Cook testified about conversations she had with Lamarre-Condon nine months before the murders in May 2023. She reported he asked her what she would do if he told her he killed someone and whether she'd help hide the body. Lamarre-Condon also allegedly said he would dispose of any bodies by taking them to bushland where they wouldn't be found, and put belongings in a dumpster. This testimony has raised questions about Lamarre-Condon's state of mind leading up to the killings, with his defense arguing that some statements were influenced by media reports. The trial is expected to last three months.
Written for “Lamarre Condon Murder Trial” on 2026-10-05,
grounded in this article and the 4 other(s) covering the same event.
A Sydney police officer told a friend he would hide the bodies of anyone he killed in bushland and put their belongings in a dumpster, months before allegedly murdering Jesse Baird and Luke Davies, a court has been told.
uncertain
court → tell → Baird
Beau Lamarre-Condon, 31, has been accused of fatally shooting the couple with a 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
At his double murder trial on Monday, Georgia Cook, a close friend of Lamarre-Condon, told the NSW supreme court about a dinner in May 2023.
uncertain
Cook → tell → May
The brief relationship between Baird and Lamarre-Condon had ended when the accused asked her what she would do if he told her he’d killed someone, Cook told the jury.
asserted
Cook → end → jury
He then asked what she would do if she killed someone and what she would do with their bodies, the court heard.
asserted
court → ask → bodies
Cook responded she had no idea.
asserted
she → respond → idea
She said on Monday that Lamarre-Condon replied: “After I’d killed them I would take their stuff, I would put it in a dumpster, and I would take their bodies in bushland where nobody would ever find them.”
asserted
nobody → say → them
Asked about her response, Cook said the situation in 2023 felt “very surreal”.
asserted
situation → ask → 2023
“I didn’t know whether to believe anything I’d heard, or whether it was true,” she told the jury.
asserted
she → know → jury
“Hearing a person of power in the police force [say that] – it felt like I didn’t have anywhere to go and I was really scared by what I had heard.”
After Lamarre-Condon allegedly shot Baird and Davies in February 2024, he dumped Baird’s bloodied belongings and furniture into a skip bin in Cronulla, the prosecution said during its opening statement last week.
uncertain
prosecution → hear → statement
The two bodies were found on the fence line of a Greek orthodox monastery in remote bushland in Bungonia – about 200km from Paddington.
asserted
bodies → find → Paddington
Cook on Friday told the court that Lamarre-Condon told her he had been watching Baird from outside his home.
asserted
he → tell → home
The crown alleged in its opening that the police officer began planning to murder Baird in early 2024.
asserted
officer → allege → 2024
The defence team has claimed he was acting in self-defence after he disguised himself as an UberEats rider and entered Baird’s home on the day of the shootings.
asserted
he → claim → shootings
The trial before justice Natalie Adams continues.
asserted
trial → continue → justice
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