Accused double murderer Beau Lamarre-Condon allegedly broke into Jesse Baird’s home and stole his mobile phone hours after the then TV presenter rebuffed his suggestion of a catchup, a court has heard.
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court → accuse → catchup
Lamarre-Condon, 31, is standing trial on two counts of murder over the shooting deaths of Jesse Baird, 26, a former Network Ten producer and presenter, and Luke Davies, 29, a Qantas flight attendant, in February 2024.
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Condon → stand → February
The former NSW police officer has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
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officer → plead → charges
Six months before the men’s deaths, Lamarre-Condon allegedly broke into Baird’s Paddington share house on August 17, 2023, and stole his wallet and mobile phone.
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Condon → break → wallet
He has also pleaded not guilty to this charge.
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He → plead → charge
The accused’s NSW Supreme Court trial heard on Monday that he texted Baird at 7.27pm on August 16: “Hey, sorry I had to run yesterday.
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I → accuse → August
I was running a tad late or I would have loved to chat for longer.
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I → run → longer
“Let’s do a walk and lunch catchup next weekend ... then we can have a proper catchup.
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we → let → catchup
Baird replied at 1.49pm the following day: “It was good to see you too and glad you had fun in Euro.”
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you → reply → Euro
Lamarre-Condon sent a screenshot of the messages to his then friend, the now senior constable Dana Schagen, who replied: “OMG.
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who → send → friend
I’m dying.
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I → die → ?
That’s so savage.
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That → ’ → ?
No, it’s defs savage.
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it → ’ → ?
“If he was keen, he would have jumped on the bandwagon.”
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he → jump → bandwagon
Asked what she meant, Schagen told the court: “It’s quite evident from the text messages that Jesse had absolutely no interest in catching up with the accused at all.
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Jesse → ask → accused
Schagen texted Lamarre-Condon on August 19 to ask if he had heard back from Baird after this.
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he → texte → this
“Yes I did hear back from him,” Lamarre-Condon replied on August 21.
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Condon → hear → August
“He had a home invasion so he couldn’t text me that as his phone got stolen but we are catching up next Wednesday night for dinner.
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we → have → dinner
He said he full chased after the guy too.”
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he → say → guy
Schagen texted: “But managed to send the first message back?
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Schagen → texte → message
I don’t get it.”
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I → get → it
Lamarre-Condon replied: “Yes, because it happened after that.
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it → reply → that
He isn’t lying.”
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He → lie → ?
Prosecutor Caitlin Diggins asked Schagen: “Did the accused tell you that he was the person Jesse had to chase out?”
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Jesse → ask → you
“No,” Schagen replied.
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Schagen → reply → ?
The court heard that Lamarre-Condon called Schagen on March 28, more than a month after the alleged murders on February 19, using a friend’s mobile phone, and said: “I just wanted to tell you that I love you, and before you do anything, you need to know not everything in the news is true.
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everything → hear → news
“It’ll come out in court.”
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It → come → court
Schagen said she cut off the accused and said: “You killed two people.
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You → say → people
Why would you think I would ever want to speak to you again?”
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I → think → you
She hung up and reported the phone call to her boss, the court heard.
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court → hang → boss
The Crown alleges Lamarre-Condon broke into the Paddington terrace while Baird was home on August 17.
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Baird → allege → August
He has pleaded not guilty to this charge.
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He → plead → charge
The defence case is that he used a key Baird had given him to enter the home.
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Baird → use → home
Baird reported the alleged break-in at the time, the court has heard, and said he had woken shortly before midnight to a man standing over his bed.
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he → report → bed
Investigating police took a photo of a bobby pin in the lock of Baird’s home, tendered in evidence in the trial.
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police → investigate → trial
Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield, SC, alleged in his opening address to the 15-person jury that Lamarre-Condon used a key he had “stolen or surreptitiously copied to enter before putting a bobby pin in the door to give the impression that the lock on the door was picked”.
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lock → allege → door
“A wallet containing cash and ID was later found, having been discarded,” he said.
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he → contain → cash
“The phone was never recovered.”
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phone → recover → ?
The court has heard that Lamarre-Condon and Baird had a casual relationship that started in late 2022 and ended for the first time in April 2023, before they briefly reconnected in September.
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they → hear → September
The Crown alleges Lamarre-Condon killed Baird after developing an “obsessive and jealous infatuation” with him that escalated when Baird ended their relationship permanently in November 2023.
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Baird → allege → November
…and 6 more, not listed.
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