Live: Beau Lamarre-Condon denies making fake Jesse Baird email and Grindr accounts
Beau Lamarre-Condon is giving evidence for a fifth day in his double murder trial in the NSW Supreme Court.
He is accused of murdering Jesse Baird and Luke Davies in February 2024 and has pleaded not guilty.
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Disagreement over stalking allegation
By Millie Roberts
By Millie Roberts
Hatfield has put to the accused that he only slept over twice: during Easter and for a dinner.
Lamarre-Condon has disagreed.
"Watching him through the window having sex wasn't connected with getting property back was it." Hatfield says.
"Firstly I wasn't watching him having sex," he replies.
He disagrees with the suggestion he wasn't getting his stuff back, and that he was stalking Baird.
Court's in session
By Millie Roberts
By Millie Roberts
The jury have taken their seats and Lamarre-Condon is in the witness box.
Hatfield is asking the accused to recall evidence about going to Baird's home and seeing him having sex with another man.
"Seeing Mr Baird through the window, is that something that happened in fact on two occasions," the prosecutor asks.
"No it was not," he replies.
He denies sending a disappearing message on Signal a photo of Baird through his window.
The accused agrees he went back to Baird's to try and get clothing left around April 14, 2023 "around the time we went to the escape room".
"I was going to stay at his place for a couple days, but I left during the night."
He says he had packed clothes for the weekend.
Timeline recap
By Millie Roberts
By Millie Roberts
- Baird and Lamarre-Condon met in October 2022
- It started out casual, but became more romantic towards the end of the year
- Lamarre-Condon says he was hanging out with Baird regularly in the new year
- In March 2023, Baird and Lamarre-Condon went to a farm, and the accused says he went through Baird's phone
- The next month, he admits to going through Baird's phone again and seeing messages from a man in the Gold Coast on Instagram
- They break up for the first time in April 2023
- Baird and Lamarre-Condon aren't speaking in early May, but are friendly again by the middle of the month
- Lamarre-Condon says he took Baird's phone and wallet from his room in August 2023
- In November 2023 they break up again over an Instagram post Lamarre-Condon posted of flowers, insinuating they were from Baird
- He says the last time he saw Baird was on November 18, 2023
- The accused says he had begun dating another man by January 2024
- He had gone to Bali with a male friend, where he investigated getting a gun and silencer. He returned to Australia on January 7, 2024
- Early February 2024, he says he tested a firearm in a national park with the intention to kill himself
- He remembers an expensive ring is at Baird's, and makes a plan to retrieve it and other belongings on February 19, 2024
- Lamarre-Condon enters the Paddington terrace on this date with a helmet and food delivery driver attire, when Baird and Davies are allegedly murdered
What the accused said on Tuesday
By Millie Roberts
By Millie Roberts
Missed out on our court coverage yesterday?
Sydney reporter Phoebe Pin recapped what Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield SC asked Lamarre-Condon while in the witness box.
You can read more here:
Welcome to our live coverage
By Millie Roberts
By Millie Roberts
Good morning. We're back reporting live on the Beau Lamarre-Condon trial.
The former police officer has pleaded not guilty to murdering Jesse Baird and Luke Davies. His team is arguing both deaths were self-defence.
This is the fifth day we've heard from the accused, and just over a third that he's been cross-examined.
A big focus of the Crown prosecution's attention has been text messages and social media DMs Lamarre-Condon sent before the alleged murders.
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