Beau Lamarre-Condon is in the witness box during his double murder trial in Sydney. ( ABC News: Sharon Gordon )
Beau Lamarre-Condon is continuing to answer questions after close to a week of cross-examination from the Crown.
He is accused of murdering his former partner Jesse Baird, and his new boyfriend, Luke Davies, in February 2024.
The former police officer has pleaded not guilty in the NSW Supreme Court.
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The accused hired a vehicle over the January long weekend in 2023.
"I was getting my rims of my Tesla resprayed and some of my wrapping done," he tells court.
He spent a couple days with a male friend, and went to a cafe with another man, and visited the Northern Beaches.
Hatfield says he was using a "burner phone" that weekend.
He replies he used it for encrypted app Signal to contact colleagues, and to call another man who he says had blocked him on Instagram.
"It was never [used] near Jesse Baird, ever," Lamarre-Condon says.
On the January long weekend , Lamarre-Condon says he went to the Royal National Park with a male friend.
"I have never been aware of any relationship Jesse had ... after the 19th."
"I hadn't seen anything on social media" and wasn't looking him up, he says.
Hatfield asks why he blocked Luke Davies on Instagram.
"I just blocked ... I even blocked Jesse's family members, I didn't want any of that."
Hatfied asks if he was thinking about or had stolen bullets when he was asking Harvell about another officer taking a shell casing.
The accused says he doesn't know if he took it before or after the conversation.
He says he saw them at Miranda Police Station , took them, and it was for the "intention of suicide".
He denies he took these bullets from a police training day, as suggested by Hatfield.
The accused's colleague and friend, Nicole Harvell, has previously told court the accused referenced "boxes and boxes" of these non-operational rounds that "weren't counted".
"I don't remember having that part of the conversation," Lamarre-Condon says in court.
He says he disagrees he was talking about rounds, and not shell casings, which also weren't counted.
This other officer reportedly took a shell casing to frame, and pocketed it.
"Did you raise the matter a few times with her ... that junior constable getting away with stealing it [the shell casing]," Hatfield asks.
He replies he talked about it once with her.
Hatfield is asking about stolen bullets from Miranda Police Station.
Lamarre-Condon says he can't recall when he took the "non-operational rounds", but it could have been "some point in January".
"I just know it was before the first of February."
He says on January 21, 2023 he discussed hearing of an officer taking a shell casing to "frame".
We're looking at an invoice for amaysim , for a sim card order the accused bought in January 15, 2023 .
He says he ordered it online and it came via express post.
"I wasn't specifically in a rush to get it ... it had nothing to do with Jesse Baird," he says.
He tells court he was collating statements from serving officers about "bullying from a certain sergeant".
"I was wanting to go compile all these statements and go to the media."
Using his phone and being found out would make him a "target" he says.
"I was very, very worried and concerned ... [about] speaking publicly," he says, and it "coming back to me".
To kickstart the morning, Hatfield has begun asking Lamarre-Condon about asking questions about technology called Cellbrite in January 2023.
Cellbrite programs are used to retrieve data from devices.
The accused says he was enquiring because he was working towards a senior position in the police force, which involved tracking drug dealers' phones.
Lamarre-Condon says he asked about Snapchat data specifically because parents had asked him about it in relation to their kids.
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We're back in the NSW Supreme Court listening to Beau Lamarre-Condon giving evidence.
He's being questioned by Brett Hatfield SC , the Crown prosecutor, as part of ongoing cross-examination .
