Source : Perth Now news
Beau Lamarre-Condon is resisting accusations he broke into his ex’s house searching for romantic rivals on the other man’s phone months before killing him.
The 31-year-old has pleaded not guilty to murdering Jesse Baird and Luke Davies with his police-issue pistol at their inner-city Sydney terrace in February 2024.
Facing a fourth day of questioning during his NSW Supreme Court trial, the former police officer stood by his story he was invited over by Mr Baird on August 17, 2023 and did not break in.
He has previously told jurors he used a key Mr Baird left in his letterbox to enter the Sydney home about 11pm, but left a bobby pin in the door.
He claims Mr Baird woke up and chased him out of the house after he took his phone and wallet from his bedside table.
The Crown alleges the break and enter was part of a pattern of obsessiveness from Lamarre-Condon before the fatal incident.
The pair briefly dated from December 2022 until their break-up in April 2023, when Mr Baird could not commit to an exclusive relationship, the jury previously heard.
On Wednesday, the 31-year-old denied allegations by crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield SC there was no invitation and that he entered the property unlawfully using a key he had copied without Mr Baird’s knowledge.
“Your whole evidence about the break in on the night of the 17th of August 2023 that you’ve given to the jury in this court is completely false,” Mr Hatfield said.
“It is not,” Lamarre-Condon replied.
“Completely false and deliberately false,” Mr Hatfield shot back.
“It is not,” the former police officer said again.
The 31-year-old turned his phone onto aeroplane mode for around an hour while the alleged break-in was taking place.
Jurors saw messages from the day of the alleged break-in where Mr Baird failed to respond to an invitation by Lamarre-Condon to meet up.
“Haha I’ll take that as a no to the catch up then,” the 31-year-old texted back.
In court, Lamarre-Condon insisted there were other discussions by phone or over social media iwhere he was invited to the other man’s home.
Six days after the alleged break-in, the senior constable met Mr Baird.
On Wednesday, he denied this was a manufactured opportunity to meet and see whether his love interest knew who had been in his bedroom earlier.
He also rejected accusations he called a police colleague to test whether an investigation into the alleged break-in would implicate him.
On Mr Baird’s birthday in September 2023, Lamarre-Condon met him for a Mexican dinner.
“He rejected my kiss,” the then senior constable texted a friend that night.
However, Lamarre-Condon testified in court that he had sexual intercourse with Mr Baird after the dinner as a birthday present.
“We definitely did hook up on this night,” he told the jury.
Mr Baird and Mr Davies were fatally shot in their Paddington home on February 19, 2024.
Prosecutors allege Lamarre-Condon was obsessed with Mr Baird despite the couple breaking up, staking out the other man’s house for hours before entering the home to assassinate him.
The 31-year-old claims he disguised himself as an Uber Eats driver to retrieve his belongings from Mr Baird’s home and has argued self-defence for the killings.
He says he accidentally shot Mr Baird during a tussle in the kitchen and Mr Davies shot himself during a separate altercation as he tried to leave the home to flag down an ambulance.
He led police to where their bodies were stuffed in surfboard bags and buried behind a rural monastery when he handed himself in days after the incident.
The trial continues.
