Former NSW police officer pleads not guilty to murders of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies as trial begins in Sydney.
A s a video was played to the jury, the sound of the gunshots that killed Jesse Baird and Luke Davies echoed through a Sydney courthouse while their loved ones listened and wept. Family, friends, reporters and members of the public were packed into the creaking pews of the King Street court on Monday as the long-anticipated trial of Beau Lamarre-Condon began.
The former police officer is accused of fatally shooting the Sydney couple with his service weapon after breaking into Baird’s Paddington home on 19 February 2024.
Baird, 26, was an AFL umpire and TV presenter who moved to Sydney in 2022 to work for Network 10; Lamarre-Condon was a New South Wales police officer.
After they stopped seeing each other in April 2023, Lamarre-Condon admitted to a friend that he would follow Baird around Sydney’s eastern suburbs, trying to bump into him at the gym or the supermarket, the court heard.
Hatfield alleged that a month later, Lamarre-Condon misused his authority as a police officer to get CCTV footage of Baird and his friends at a pub in Paddington.
Lamarre-Condon continued to speak with friends about Baird, telling one he had the tyres cut on Baird’s car and asking another what would happen if water was added to a diesel engine, knowing the 26-year-old drove a diesel ute, Hatfield said.
On the morning of 19 February 2024, Lamarre-Condon was captured on CCTV disguised as a food delivery driver, wearing a motorcycle helmet, hi-vis jacket and holding an UberEats bag.