Courts / Sydney, NSW

Beau Lamarre-Condon asked police investigator about murder of Lilie James day before shootings, court hears

2 Oct 2026 12:04 AEST Summary

From the report

Lamarre-Condon has been accused of fatally shooting the couple with his police service weapon in Baird’s Paddington home on 19 February 2024.

How outlets headlined it

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The Guardian Australia Beau Lamarre-Condon asked police investigator about murder of Lilie James day before shootings, court hears plain
WAtoday ‘Killer was stupid’: Lamarre-Condon discussed Lilie James murder, court told plain

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All two things this headline claims are in the report.

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How it is written

Niral Score 11 · mostly calm mundaneloaded

10 more readings adjectives, repeated words, sentiment, gender and 2 more and 4 at zero

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higginson9court8police8asked7murder6killed4away3day3gotten3home3investigator3school3bit2crime2fatally2hadn’t2heard2himself2officer2officers2phone2trial2work2working2

Sentiment -0.6 hostilefavourable Gender 9.3 no gendered framingframing throughout Sourcing 81 unattributednamed sources Mood 10.9 sorrowjoyful

4 read zero: political diction, generational, jingoistic, religious

Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

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Measured on The Guardian Australia’s report as filed, which is all we may publish of this one.

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The Guardian Australiaas they published this story	11

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The same event elsewhere

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WAtoday ‘Killer was stupid’: Lamarre-Condon discussed Lilie James murder, court told Niral 8.6 · calm political 0 Brisbane Times ‘Killer was stupid’: Lamarre-Condon discussed Lilie James murder, court told Niral 8.6 · calm political 0 The Age ‘Killer was stupid’: Lamarre-Condon discussed Lilie James murder, court told Niral 8.6 · calm political 0 The Sydney Morning Herald ‘Killer was stupid’: Lamarre-Condon discussed Lilie James murder, court told Niral 8.6 · calm political 0