Source : Perth Now news
Beau Lamarre-Condon is accused of leaving the bodies of a Sydney couple in a van overnight after he allegedly murdered them, with his movements after the couple’s deaths revealed in court.
The former police officer disguised himself as an Uber Eats rider before allegedly killing Jesse Baird and his new partner Luke Davies at the journalist’s Paddington home in Sydney in February 2024.
The 31-year-old has pleaded not guilty, and is arguing self-defence as he fights the murder allegations before a jury trial in the NSW Supreme Court.
He is accused of stuffing their bodies in surfboard bags before trying to sink them in a dam, and ultimately dumping them outside the fence line of a Greek monastery in Bungonia.
The jury was played a long CCTV compilation, during which Mr Lamarre-Condon was spotted purchasing a second surfboard bag from Westfield Miranda about two hours after the alleged murders.
In the footage, he is later shown returning to Mr Baird’s home in a cleaner get-up and coming back a second time carrying blue tarp.
Between those times, he is alleged to have purchased a series of items from Bunnings Alexandria, including disposable gloves and a bucket mop wringer.
He is accused of hiring a Hiace van that night before returning to the Paddington home to load the bodies into the van.
The jury was told Mr Lamarre-Condon left the bodies in the van overnight parked at a street in Kensington.
He again returned to the home to wash blood from the courtyard later that evening, the jury was told.
On the evening of February 20, he allegedly went for a sushi train dinner with a friend before dumping the couple’s belongings at a skip bin in Cronulla.
He allegedly tried to sink the couple’s bodies in a dam the following day.
The jury was told he kept saying, “F**k, now I have to come back” to a friend he had taken on the drive to the farm, before dumping the bodies near the monastery at a later time.
On February 23, he allegedly drove to Bunnings Rockdale to get paint and used it to cover blood stains in the van.
The couple’s DNA was allegedly found on the van, with the jury shown a series of photographs of bloodstains spotted on the vehicle.
Prosecutors allege Mr Lamarre-Condon knew he was a police suspect in the couple’s disappearance when he handed himself in on the morning of February 23.
The jury was told he called a police helpline on the way to the police station to report a workplace injury.
“All this death and trauma and psychological abuse and trauma – did I say trauma already? – has caused me, um, not to sleep, get anxious. It’s caused me to have some symptoms of schizophrenia,” Mr Lamarre-Condon allegedly told the helpline.
“Actually sorry, you know what … can we just start again? Delete that whole thing, we’ll just keep it short and sweet.”
Following his arrest, he told a custody manager he was on tablets for depression, anxiety and schizophrenia, but prosecutors allege he had never been prescribed schizophrenia medication and was not on any medicine for mental health issues at the time.
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