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Hello and welcome to our live coverage of Beau Lamarre-Condon’s double murder trial in the NSW Supreme Court in Sydney.
The former NSW police officer returns to the witness box today to face further cross-examination by Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield, SC.
The 31-year-old has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder over the deaths of Jesse Baird, 26, a former TV presenter, and Luke Davies, 29, a Qantas flight attendant. His case is that he acted in self-defence, the 15-person jury has been told.
He has given the following evidence in cross-examination:
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Lamarre-Condon has returned to the witness box and Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield, SC, is asking him about his evidence that he saw Jesse Baird through his window having sex with another man.
The accused has told the court that he was there to pick up some of his belongings after the first break-up in April 2023.
“I didn’t watch Jesse having sex,” he said today.
He has told the court he intended to tap on the window to get Baird’s attention and left almost immediately after he realised he was seeing Baird with another man through the sheer curtains of his bedroom window.
Hatfield put to Lamarre-Condon: “It was stalking him.”
Lamarre-Condon replied: “I disagree.”
The court will be taking a break to observe Remembrance Day at 11am, after a request from some members of the 15-person jury.
Justice Natalie Adams said the court would adjourn for about 5 minutes before 11am to allow the jurors who wished to observe the minute’s silence to do so in the jury room.
The court heard yesterday that Lamarre-Condon texted a friend on August 15, 2023: “I’m going to run into old mate today. Do you wanna come? Haha.”
The men had broken up for the first time in April, the court has heard.
Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield, SC, put to him that he framed the message as if he knew he would run into Baird. The accused said it was just “wishful thinking”.
He denied a suggestion by Hatfield that he knew Baird’s location and was able to monitor him on Snapchat.
One of the lines of cross-examination yesterday was about a photo Lamarre-Condon took in April 2023 of messages on Baird’s phone.
The then TV presenter had been asked by another man if he was in a relationship, and he responded that he and Lamarre-Condon saw each other “from time to time” but were not “‘seeing’ each other or in a relationship”.
The court has heard the accused sent the photo of the messages to three friends. Lamarre-Condon has agreed during cross-examination that his relationship with Baird was not exclusive and that he was seeing another man and had an online dating profile in March 2023.
He had previously told the court that he took the photo of the messages after Baird gave him his phone to edit a video of them at an escape room that they had gone to earlier that evening after dinner.
Hello and welcome to our live coverage of Beau Lamarre-Condon’s double murder trial in the NSW Supreme Court in Sydney.
The former NSW police officer returns to the witness box today to face further cross-examination by Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield, SC.
The 31-year-old has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder over the deaths of Jesse Baird, 26, a former TV presenter, and Luke Davies, 29, a Qantas flight attendant. His case is that he acted in self-defence, the 15-person jury has been told.
