Photographs of items found near the bodies of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies were shown to jurors during the trial of Beau Lamarre-Condon in February 2024. The 31-year-old former police officer is accused of shooting the couple with his service pistol, and he has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder. Among the evidence presented are high-visibility clothing, a helmet, white bloodstained overalls, and a rental car card bearing "Beau L-C." The defense suggests an alternative scenario involving self-defense, while the prosecution alleges that Lamarre-Condon was motivated by jealousy and infatuation with Baird.
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Story summary
In February 2024, Beau Lamarre-Condon, a former police officer, is on trial for allegedly murdering his ex-boyfriend Jesse Baird and Baird's new partner Luke Davies in Sydney. On February 19, 2024, the couple was shot to death using Lamarre-Condon’s service pistol at Baird’s share house in Paddington. Eight days later, their bodies were found decomposing inside surfboard bags near a monastery in Bungonia, about 200km south of Sydney.
During his trial, a senior police officer broke down while describing the gruesome discovery of the bodies and the challenging search process, comparing it to finding "a needle in a haystack." Jurors also saw confronting photos of the badly decomposed remains. Items found at the site included high-visibility clothing, bloodstained overalls, and a rental car card with Lamarre-Condon's name.
Lamarre-Condon has pleaded not guilty to the charges and claims self-defense. The trial is ongoing in the NSW Supreme Court.
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In short:
Dozens of photographs of items located where the bodies of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies were found have been released.
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Jurors in the Beau Lamaree-Condon double murder trial were shown the exhibits this week.
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The 31-year-old is accused of shooting the couple using his service pistol in 2024.
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He has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder.
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High-visibility clothing, a helmet, white bloodstained overalls and a rental car card with the name "Beau L-C" were amongst a collection of items at the location where the bodies of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies were found south of Sydney in 2024, a jury has heard.
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The scene, near a monastery at rural Bungonia, was photographed and documented after the discovery on February 27, 2024, eight days after the alleged murders of the young couple.
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Former police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon is facing a three-month trial in the NSW Supreme Court, where he has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and his lawyers have indicated an argument of self-defence.
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The 31-year-old is accused of shooting Mr Baird and Mr Davies using his service pistol in Mr Baird's home in Paddington, in Sydney's east.
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The court on Friday released dozens of photographs shown this week as jurors heard evidence from a retired crime scene specialist, Greg Moon, who attended the Bungonia site.
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The bodies of Mr Davies and Mr Baird were found inside surfboard bags near mounds of gravel on a fence line, partially covered by rocks, sticks and branches, the court heard.
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Police found and photographed a fired gun cartridge and there was a wheelbarrow and spade also in the area.
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Black garbage bags and piles of discarded property included clothing, a weight, cable ties, gumboots, and packaging of supplies such as concrete, tarpaulins and overalls.
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The Crown alleges that Mr Lamarre-Condon initially attempted to sink the couple's bodies in a dam using quick-set cement and weights, before returning later to move them.
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The jury has seen CCTV footage of a person in high-visibility clothing dressed as an Uber Eats delivery driver on the morning of the alleged murders.
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The Crown says Mr Lamarre-Condon waited for Mr Baird's housemates to leave that morning, and during an opening address Crown Prosecutor Brett Hatfield SC said he would invite the jury to infer the defendant spent time "steeling" himself on the street for what he was allegedly about to do.
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The Crown's case is that Mr Lamarre-Condon developed a jealous infatuation with Mr Baird after the end of a somewhat casual romance in parts of 2023, and had allegedly stalked him leading up to the deaths.
But the defence has flagged an alternative version of what took place inside the terrace, saying Mr Lamarre-Condon went there to collect belongings, was surprised that Mr Baird was home, and that two separate struggles involving the gun resulted in two tragic deaths.
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John Stratton SC, representing Mr Lamarre-Condon, has previously told jurors that his client tried to clean the scene out of panic and knew how the situation would be perceived.
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The collection of exhibits released on Friday, at the end of the third week of the trial, include photographs of two keys found at the Bungonia monastery site.
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In a video also released by the court after it was played to jurors, a detective later tests the keys at Mr Baird's Brown Street terrace and confirms they unlock the front door and a security door.
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The jury has heard that before arriving at the monastery, police had scoured a dam at a farm about 15-minutes away and found other evidence including more cable ties, weights, and concrete residue.
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Detectives located that farm after taking an induced statement from a witness who said she had been with the defendant days after the alleged murders, on a drive to Goulburn in a white van, and that they had been to a farm.
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That witness, who has been given the pseudonym Elizabeth Kennedy during the trial, also said they had stopped at Bunnings to buy an angle grinder.
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The trial, before Justice Natalie Adams, will continue on Monday.
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