Inside the Beau Lamarre-Condon trial: What the jury has heard about Jesse Baird, Luke Davies’ Paddington deaths

WARNING: Distressing content.

“Jealous”, “obsessive”, “stalkerish”, and “calculated”.

This is how accused double murderer and former police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon has been described during the first six weeks of his murder trial as he battles allegations he murdered Jesse Baird and the man’s new partner Luke Davies in the inner-Sydney suburb of Paddington on February 19, 2024.

The couple’s loved ones filled the court pews as more than 60 witnesses were called, dozens of witness statements were read aloud, and more than 100 exhibits – including hundreds of gruesome crime scene photos – were shown to the jury.

Some family members shook their heads or stared the former police officer down at some points as he sat expressionless in the witness box, while at least a dozen members of the public flocked to the upstairs gallery each day.

At one point, a man resorted to sitting on the courtroom floor as there wasn’t enough space.

Mr Lamarre-Condon has pleaded not guilty and is arguing self-defence before a jury in the NSW Supreme Court.

As the prosecution gear up to close their case next week, the key allegations made against the former police officer in court can be revealed.

Cop allegedly watched TV presenter have sex through window

Mr Lamarre-Condon met Mr Baird in late 2022 and they dated until April 2023 before an amicable break-up, the jury was told.

Despite the TV presenter viewing their relationship as “somewhat casual”, prosecutors allege Mr Lamarre-Condon developed an “obsessive and jealous infatuation with him”.

It’s alleged he stalked the journalist, with the jury told he watched Mr Baird have sex with another man through his window and broke into his home several times.

He at one point jammed a bobby pin in the lock of the TV presenter’s door to make it look as though it had been picked, prosecutors allege, with the jury told Mr Baird woke up during one of the break-ins and chased the man out of his house.

Unaware that the alleged intruder was Mr Lamarre-Condon, Mr Baird began casually seeing the then-police officer again in September 2023.

Mr Lamarre-Condon concedes he entered the home but he claims he used a key Mr Baird gave him, the jury was told.

‘You won’t exist’: Jury told of cop’s words after break-up

The TV presenter cut all contact with him in November after he discovered Mr Lamarre-Condon had been going through his phone to delete messages and block other men, and made an Instagram post that made it look like the TV presenter sent him a large bouquet of flowers.

The then-police officer sourced the image of flowers from the internet and ensured men he perceived to be his “romantic rivals” could see the social media post but not Mr Baird, the jury was told.

When the TV presenter confronted him about it, the jury was told Mr Lamarre-Condon claimed his stepfather had sent them to his mother, Coleen, before dropping $160 to replicate the bouquet and asking Ms Lamarre to “pose” for a photo with the flowers.

There is no evidence he sent the picture to Mr Baird, but he did ask the journalist to meet with him so he could “take ownership of something”.

When Mr Baird did not reply, Mr Lamarre-Condon allegedly called him a “manipulative player” in a text message the next day and wrote: “You don’t need to worry about seeing me out etc because you won’t exist, and no further conversation needs to take place.”

Mr Lamarre-Condon also texted a man Mr Baird was casually dating, Damon Wilson, that same day claiming that the journalist had led him on and “gaslit” him, the jury was told.

The former police officer’s barrister, John Stratton SC, told the jury Mr Lamarre-Condon “did some stupid things” including looking through Mr Baird’s phone and deleting texts with other men.

Accused killer’s cancer ‘lie’ after break-up: court

Mr Lamarre-Condon allegedly tried to blame his behaviour on a fake cancer diagnosis two days later, with the jury told he convinced his friend, Shae Davison, to let him use her phone so the message appeared as though it was coming from her Instagram account in “one last try to win Jesse back”.

“He was told he has a cancerous tumour … worst case scenario could result in, I don’t want to even say, or having to possibly have his arm amputated,” the message, read to the jury, states.

The message goes on to claim Mr Lamarre-Condon was on medication for chemo radiation treatment before a surgery in December, and that the “deep love” between he and Mr Baird can “110% come back”.

“The Crown case is that was a lie, the accused did not have cancer,” Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield SC said.

The next day, Mr Lamarre-Condon allegedly asked a friend if her ex-boyfriend could get him a gun.

‘He has a gun’: TV presenter ‘scared’ of cop, jury told

Mr Baird’s sister told the jury he was “scared’ of Mr Lamarre-Condon, with the TV presenter telling a colleague in November that a person he was casually seeing was becoming “a bit stalkerish” before telling her about Mr Lamarre-Condon’s flowers social media post.

His former long-term partner cried while telling the jury Mr Baird was “petrified” and “kept repeating ‘He has a gun’” after the flowers incident.

“I never heard him so scared in his voice before,” Corey-Dean Thorpe told the jury.

On New Year’s Eve, 2023, Mr Baird met Mr Davies, with the jury told the pair quickly became “smitten” with one another.

Around this time, the jury was told Mr Lamarre-Condon told an old friend he “can’t let things go, I hate losing” during a conversation about the TV presenter’s blossoming relationship with Mr Davies.

Cop’s body questions, gun investigation: court

Mr Lamarre-Condon asked at least two friends if they would help him dispose of a body before the couple’s deaths, the jury was told, including an occasion where he asked Georgia Cook around April 2023 what she would do if he killed someone and if she would help him hide the body.

He went on to say if he had killed someone, he would “take their stuff, I would put it in a dumpster … I would take their bodies to bushland where nobody would ever find them”, Ms Cook told the jury.

It’s also alleged he took his close friend, who cannot be named for legal reasons, to a national park weeks before the alleged murders and used NSW Police training rounds he stole and fired a shot with a paper bag over his police firearm to test muffling the sound of gunfire.

The man told the jury Mr Lamarre-Condon asked him “Would you hear this in a house?”, to which he replied: “You could hear that anywhere.”

Mr Lamarre-Condon claimed in a secret jail recording played to the jury that he meant “do you think people would hear the echo of the shot” as he was planning to return to the park and kill himself.

Cop’s Saltburn comment, acting classes: court

Weeks before he allegedly murdered the couple, Mr Lamarre-Condon asked a friend, known for legal reasons by the pseudonym Fiona Rosso, to practise reading lines with her ahead of an acting class he had booked.

The woman told the jury one of the characters in the script “got done with drugs”, with one character suggesting they should go to the police while another insisted they couldn’t.

Just days before the alleged killings, he also asked Ms Rosso to watch the film Saltburn and told her “I see myself playing the lead role of the nerd”, the jury was told.

Texts before alleged murders

Mr Lamarre-Condon purchased a surfboard bag on February 17, with the then-officer asking his close friend to stand up near the bag so he could measure it before saying “Oh, I’ll get the bigger one”, the jury was told.

The next evening, Mr Lamarre-Condon is accused of taking his gun back to a police station after working a shift and then pretending to put it back in the safe, instead keeping it.

He texted Ms Rosso later that night saying “If I don’t get to talk to you again I just want to let you know I love you so much”, the jury was told.

He messaged Ms Rosso again just before 5am saying “Don’t worry about me though”, with the jury told that the woman replied: “What did the universe say? Yay or nay?”

“No there is no sign I’m doing it,” Mr Lamarre-Condon allegedly replied.

When questioned about the conversation in court, the woman could not recall what the exchange was in reference to.

Cop’s Uber Eats disguise in alleged killings

Shortly afterwards, he turned off his phone, activated a burner, and drove to a “staging point” in Kensington where he swapped his Tesla for a Mazda that was hired under his mother’s name the night before, the jury was told.

He drove to Mr Baird’s Paddington home, at some stage donning an Uber Eats rider disguise complete with a brown paper bag, and waited outside for more than three hours, watching as the TV presenter’s housemates left, the jury was told.

Armed with his NSW Police pistol, it is alleged Mr Lamarre-Condon entered the home with a key he either stole or had secretly copied before shooting Mr Baird twice in his kitchen, with the second shot described as “execution-style”.

Mr Lamarre-Condon is accused of shooting Mr Davies through the TV presenter’s bedroom door as he tried to call for help, with the sound of gunshots captured on CCTV from a neighbouring home played to the jury along with a triple-0 call in which the Qantas host can allegedly be heard saying “get out” or “f**k off”.

The then-police officer allegedly said “pew pew” as he told his close friend “I’ve killed people”, that he “shot the first one through the head and the second one through the door”, and that “the second person wasn’t even meant to be shot” about an hour after the couple’s deaths, the jury was told.

It’s the Crown case that Mr Lamarre-Condon murdered Mr Davies to prevent him from “exposing his crime” before then engaging in “a deliberate and calculated series of actions to cover up his involvement” in their deaths.

A bullet hole in Mr Baird’s bedroom door was only discovered in July 2026 as it had been covered with a hook, with prosecutors alleging Mr Lamarre-Condon bought a hook from Kmart after the alleged murders.

It’s alleged Mr Lamarre-Condon used Mr Baird’s phone after his death to send messages making it seem like he was alive and going to Perth.

Mr Lamarre-Condon in turn claims he entered the home to collect some of his belongings and his gun, which he had on him because he’s a police officer, went off twice during a struggle and fatally wounded Mr Baird.

While calling triple-0 himself, he claims Mr Davies emerged with his gun which had been flung into another room and accidentally shot himself during a second struggle.

He argues he never intended to murder either of the men, and his actions after the deaths were that of a man who “panicked considerably”.

“He was a police officer and he knew that this looked bad,” Mr Stratton told the jury.

Cop’s $1.4k Bunnings blitz after alleged murders

Mr Lamarre-Condon purchased a second surfboard bag later that day and allegedly stuffed the couple’s bodies in the bags, wrapped them in tarp, and left them in the backyard for hours, only returning late that night to load them into a van he hired before again going back to wash blood from the backyard.

It’s alleged Mr Lamarre-Condon carried out significant cleaning at the home after the couple’s deaths, with receipts tendered in court revealing he spent $1449 at various Bunnings’ in the days afterwards.

Police also scoured through more than 14,000 hours of CCTV between February 16 and 23, with a significant portion of the footage played to the jury capturing his Bunnings’ trips and surfboard bag purchases.

Cop’s surgery and sushi after alleged murders

The alleged killer managed to fit in a sushi train dinner the night after the alleged murders, with his close friend telling the jury Mr Lamarre-Condon had mentioned needing to find a skip bin at some point that evening.

It is alleged Mr Lamarre-Condon dropped his mate home before dumping the couple’s bloodied belongings in a skip bin at Club Cronulla, with the items discovered by the venue’s greenkeeper early the following morning.

Around this time on February 21, Mr Lamarre-Condon underwent a brief surgery at St Vincent’s Hospital before later picking up another friend, known by the pseudonym Elizabeth Kennedy for legal reasons, and driving to Cella Farm in Bungonia where it is alleged he tried and failed to sink the couple’s bodies in a dam.

On this day, cleaners hired by Mr Baird’s flatmates attended the Paddington home as he was due to move out that week, with video shown to the jury capturing the moment detectives ask them to stop working as the property was being declared a crime scene.

Mr Lamarre-Condon allegedly dumped the couple’s bodies near the fence line of a Greek monastery in Bungonia at some point after failing to sink them at the farm.

The bodies were not discovered until eight days after their deaths, with a major search for the couple sparked after Ms Kennedy went to police on February 23 and told them how she had driven to Cella Farm with Mr Lamarre-Condon days prior.

‘Scrubbing’: Cop couldn’t get blood off van, jury told

On the evening of February 22, Mr Lamarre-Condon allegedly drove hours out of Sydney to a friend’s house where he cleaned the van it is alleged he moved the couple’s bodies in.

The friend, known for legal reasons by the pseudonym Fiona Rosso, told the jury he was “scrubbing” the vehicle and told her there was blood and he “couldn’t get it off:

During the evening, Mr Lamarre-Condon used her phone to message his mother and used a “code word” to discuss a search warrant taking place at her home, the jury was told.

Cop’s ‘trauma’ claim before handing himself in

He left Ms Rosso’s house the next morning and handed himself in at Bondi police station where he was arrested over the alleged murders.

Mr Lamarre-Condon had called a police helpline on the way, claiming he had been “severely bullied” by members of the force and had suffered “trauma”

“All this death and trauma, and psychological abuse and trauma — did I say trauma already? — has caused me to not sleep, get anxious,” Mr Lamarre-Condon says in the call played to the jury.

Cop’s Taylor Swift ‘lie’, secret jail recordings: court

Mr Lamarre-Condon later tried to pin the decision to hide the couple’s bodies on Ms Kennedy in a handwritten police statement in June 2025.

In the statement, the former police officer claims he showed Ms Kennedy the TV presenter’s head before they drove to Cella Farm and cried while telling her “I should just drive straight to the police”, the jury was told.

“This is like Taylor Swift’s song No Body, No Crime – we have to get rid of (the bodies) straight away,” Mr Lamarre-Condon claims the woman told him.

Mr Hatfield alleged the statement is a “lie” and that Mr Lamarre-Condon had “already decided to conceal the deaths of the two men by disposing of them”.

The former police officer is also accused of telling his close friend that he “misheard” things he had written in his police statement about Mr Lamarre-Condon telling him he did not want to kill the second person but couldn’t risk leaving any witnesses.

“Don’t you dare, don’t you dare switch up,” the man says in a secret jail recording from December 2025.

“The truth is you misheard it,” Mr Lamarre-Condon tells him.

The young man, Ms Rosso and Ms Kennedy all made statements to police under the promise that what they said could not be used against them in any criminal proceeding, the jury was told.

The prosecution’s case will close on Tuesday, and Mr Lamarre-Condon’s defence case will open on Thursday, the jury was told.

The trial continues.