Sydney court hears testimony in Baird and Davies murder case — The Guardian
In Australia, the Supreme Court of New South Wales in Sydney heard testimony from friends of police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon, who is accused of murdering Jesse Baird and his partner Luke Davies. As The Guardian reports, 31-year-old Lamarre-Condon pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and a charge of aggravated break and enter.
Lamarre-Condon is accused of fatally shooting 26-year-old Baird and 29-year-old Davies with his police service weapon at Baird's home in the Paddington area on February 19, 2024.
Georgia Cook's testimony
The defendant's friend Georgia Cook told the jury that Lamarre-Condon was obsessed with Baird during their brief relationship. According to her, after their breakup in April 2023, he did not stop talking about Baird.
About a month later, during dinner, Lamarre-Condon asked Cook what she would do if he told her he had killed someone and whether she would help him hide a body. Cook replied that she would not do so. Later, according to her testimony, he assured her that he had not killed anyone but had done something crazy.
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Cook told the court that Lamarre-Condon watched Baird near his home. She also said that he allegedly saw where a house key was left, unlocked the door, took a Polaroid camera gifted to Baird, and ate an Easter egg. According to her testimony, he came to the house in his mother's car and wore a black hoodie so that he would not be recognized.
Message sent in a friend's name
Another friend, Shay Davison, told the jury that in November 2023, Baird ended his relationship with Lamarre-Condon after he looked through his phone and deleted messages from other men. According to her, the defendant was very upset and asked to stay at her house because he did not want to be alone.
The following day, Davison said, he asked her to send Baird a message from her Instagram account as a last attempt to win him back. Lamarre-Condon did not want her to read the text, citing medical details. Davison agreed on the condition that he would read the message aloud without disclosing those details.
The approximately 1,600-word text, sent in Davison's name, claimed that she had supposedly accompanied Lamarre-Condon to Westmead Hospital and that he had been diagnosed with a cancerous tumour. Davison told the court that she had not gone to the hospital with him and had not approved that part of the message. Lamarre-Condon's defence argues that on the day of the shooting, he acted in self-defence after entering Baird's home disguised as an Uber Eats courier. The trial is ongoing.
