Live: Beau Lamarre-Condon faces grilling in cross-examination
Cross-examination by the Crown prosecutor is continuing in the NSW Supreme Court.
Former police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon is accused of murdering Jesse Baird and Luke Davies in February 2024. He has pleaded not guilty.
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Friend reactivated Lamarre-Condon's Instagram for evidence
By Millie Roberts
By Millie Roberts
We're looking at an exhibit of a screenshot of a DM between Baird and Lamarre-Condon dated in December 2022.
He says he asked a friend to "reactivate my Instagram account to screenshot them [the DMs] directly and send them to my lawyers".
"But I also remember taking screenshots at the time."
Hatfield suggests the quality of some of the screenshots are poor, and questions why the profile pictures are different
"If you're trying to insinuate any of these aren't genuine -" Lamarre-Condon says, before the judge implores him to let Hatfield finish the question.
Lamarre-Condon says some of the messages are from iMessage, and others are Instagram DMs.
Screenshots of DMs to friends
By Millie Roberts
By Millie Roberts
He says he started going on "romantic dates" in mid-to-late December 2022.
An Instagram message on December 22, 2022 of Baird saying he wished Lamarre-Condon was meeting his family, while on a trip to Melbourne.
"I've screenshotted messages before and sent them to [a friend], and she's sent them to my lawyers," he explains.
"I've sent many friends screenshots of messages between Jesse and I.
"I believed I screenshotted them at the time as well, because I would've sent them to friends."
Lamarre-Condon speaking
By Millie Roberts
By Millie Roberts
The accused says he met Baird in October 2022.
Bank records show both Baird and Lamarre-Condon made transactions at LGBT+ club Universal on October 21.
"We didn't start romantically dating until December," he says.
"Meeting up with someone for a sexual encounter is very different from going on a date," he says.
They would meet at his house, and in December they would meet up "often", less so the month before, he says.
"We were definitely seeing each other in December."
Tense scenes on Monday
By Millie Roberts
By Millie Roberts
It has been at times tense between Lamarre-Condon and Hatfield, as the Crown prosecutor presses him on his version of events.
The accused on Tuesday was argumentative as Hatfield suggested he was lying on certain recollections and influencing a witness.
He rebutted by saying vital people hadn't been brought before the court, and claimed the jury hadn't been shown key moments in evidence.
At other points, Lamarre-Condon would tear up and become emotional as he spoke about suicide attempts and Jesse Baird's death.
What went down yesterday
By Millie Roberts
By Millie Roberts
Missed out on Monday's cross-examination?
Sydney reporter Phoebe Pin recapped what happened in court here:
Welcome to our coverage
By Millie Roberts
By Millie Roberts
Good morning, thanks for joining us.
We're picking back up cross-examination in the Beau Lamarre-Condon double murder trial.
The accused has been in the witness box since Thursday, and answering questions from Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield SC for the last day and a half.
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