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Three shots, a shopping trip and 14,000 hours of CCTV: The case against Beau Lamarre-Condon

The Age Michaela Whitbourn, The Visual Stories Team

26 Sept 2026 05:15 AEST Summary

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This is what the jury has seen and heard in the trial of the former police officer accused of murdering Sydney couple Jesse Baird and Luke Davies. Warning: graphic content.

**Not from this story.** A library photograph of australia city skyline, used to illustrate it. Sydney Corey Leopold / flickr, CC BY

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Niral Score 4.6 mundaneloaded

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Sentiment -0.1 hostilefavourable Sourcing 36 unattributednamed sources Mood 47.4 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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The Ageas they published this story	4.6

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The Sydney Morning Herald Three shots, a shopping trip and 14,000 hours of CCTV: The case against Beau Lamarre-Condon Niral 4.6 political 0 WAtoday Three shots, a shopping trip and 14,000 hours of CCTV: The case against Beau Lamarre-Condon Niral 4.6 political 0 Brisbane Times Three shots, a shopping trip and 14,000 hours of CCTV: The case against Beau Lamarre-Condon Niral 4.6 political 0