Source : Perth Now news
New CCTV footage has revealed Beau Lamarre-Condon carrying cleaning gear as he returned to the Sydney home where he allegedly murdered a couple.
The former police officer has pleaded not guilty to murdering Jesse Baird and his new partner Luke Davies at Mr Baird’s Paddington home in Sydney on February 19, 2024.
Mr Lamarre-Condon, 31, is arguing self-defence as he fights the murder allegations before a jury trial in the NSW Supreme Court.
Footage previously released showed Mr Lamarre-Condon buying a surfboard bag three days before the couple’s deaths, with the former officer pulling one off the rack and examining the size at one point.
He allegedly asked his friend whether he thought he could fit in the bag, and when the man indicated he would not, Mr Lamarre-Condon replied “I’ll get this one instead” in reference to a different bag.
In another long CCTV compilation released on Thursday, Mr Lamarre-Condon is shown purchasing a second surfboard bag in the hours after he allegedly murdered the couple.
Beau Lamarre-Condon’s cleaner get-up in the hours after he allegedly murdered a Sydney couple has been revealed on CCTV.
Footage later shows him walking down Mr Baird’s street carrying cleaning gear and then going back a second time carrying blue tarp.
Between those appearances, he is alleged to have purchased a series of items from Bunnings Alexandria, including disposable gloves and a bucket mop wringer.
It is alleged he undertook cleaning at Mr Baird’s home after allegedly killing him and Mr Davies.
Items found in search for bodies
Photographs of items found at a farm where police believed the couple’s bodies were dumped have been released.
The couple’s bodies weren’t found until eight days after their deaths, with the jury told information from Mr Lamarre-Condon’s friend, known for legal reasons as Elizabeth Kennedy, leading police to Cella Farm in Bungonia in the NSW Southern Tablelands on February 23.
Ms Kennedy told Detective Senior Constable Christina Abela that she had gone on a drive with Mr Lamarre-Condon in a white van days before. She bought an angle grinder at Bunnings before they drove to the farm where the former officer allegedly cut the padlock of the gate.
Constable Abela told the jury she suspected the bodies of Mr Baird and Mr Davies may be at the property after speaking with Ms Kennedy, sparking a days-long search to find the farm and the bodies.
Searching for the farm was like “trying to find a needle in a haystack”, Constable Abela said, but she arrived there on February 25.
She found a cut padlock in the letterbox, while other officers discovered weights and large blocks of cement at the property after it was declared a crime scene, Constable Abela told the jury.
Police divers searched two of the dams at the property, with prosecutors previously alleging that Mr Lamarre-Condon tried to sink the couple’s bodies by pouring cement into the surfboard bags he had stuffed their bodies into and using weights.
The bodies were ultimately found on February 27 outside a Greek monastery 20km away.
Ms Kennedy made a statement under the promise that what she disclosed would not be used against her in any criminal proceedings, the jury was told.
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