Beau Lamarre-Condon jury played Triple Zero call from day of alleged murders

2 Oct 2026 12:53 AEST Summary

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A jury has been played the Triple Zero call made from Luke Davies's phone on the day he and Jesse Baird were allegedly murdered by Beau Lamarre-Condon.

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A jury has been played a Triple Zero call from the phone of Luke Davies on the morning he and his boyfriend, Jesse Baird, were allegedly murdered by then-police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon.

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ABC News (Just In) Beau Lamarre-Condon jury played Triple Zero call from day of alleged murders plain
The Age Footage shows police arriving at alleged murder victim’s home plain
WAtoday Lamarre-Condon’s holiday video with Jesse Baird revealed plain

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Niral Score 11.1 · mostly calm mundaneloaded

10 more readings adjectives, repeated words, sentiment, sourcing and 1 more and 5 at zero

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Sentiment -0.4 hostilefavourable Sourcing 43 unattributednamed sources Mood 18.6 sorrowjoyful

5 read zero: political diction, generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

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ABC News (Just In)as they published this story	11.1

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The same event elsewhere

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The Age Footage shows police arriving at alleged murder victim’s home Niral 3 · calm political 0 The Sydney Morning Herald Footage shows police arriving at alleged murder victim’s home Niral 3 · calm political 0 WAtoday Footage shows police arriving at alleged murder victim’s home Niral 3 · calm political 0 Brisbane Times Footage shows police arriving at alleged murder victim’s home Niral 3 · calm political 0 WAtoday Lamarre-Condon’s holiday video with Jesse Baird revealed Niral 14.6 · mostly calm political 0 Brisbane Times Lamarre-Condon’s holiday video with Jesse Baird revealed Niral 14.6 · mostly calm political 0 The Age Lamarre-Condon’s holiday video with Jesse Baird revealed Niral 14.6 · mostly calm political 0 The Sydney Morning Herald Lamarre-Condon’s holiday video with Jesse Baird revealed Niral 14.6 · mostly calm political 0