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Hiya and welcome to our dwell protection of Beau Lamarre-Condon’s double homicide trial within the NSW Supreme Courtroom in Sydney.
Yesterday’s listening to was lower quick after Justice Natalie Adams advised the 15-person jury about 12.30pm that “a difficulty has arisen unexpectedly”. They have been advised to return at 10am as we speak and there was a brief delay earlier than the listening to resumed.
“These items occur in trials on a regular basis, as you’ve in all probability learnt by now,” the choose stated yesterday.
The accused returns to the witness field as we speak for additional cross-examination by Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield, SC.
The previous NSW police officer has pleaded not responsible to 2 counts of homicide over the deaths of Jesse Baird, 26, a former TV presenter, and Luke Davies, 29, a Qantas flight attendant. There isn’t a dispute that the lads died of gunshot wounds from his police-issued pistol on February 19, 2024, and that the accused disposed of the our bodies on February 22, 2024.
The Crown alleges that Lamarre-Condon deliberate to kill Baird after growing an obsessive and jealous infatuation with him and that he killed Davies, Baird’s boyfriend, to eradicate a witness to his crime.
The defence case is that Lamarre-Condon acted in self-defence after coming into Baird’s Paddington share home dressed as an Uber Eats rider to gather a few of his possessions after Baird ended their non-exclusive relationship in November 2023. He stated he struck upon the thought for the disguise that morning as a manner to make sure Baird didn’t accuse him of harassment, and he thought no one was dwelling.
Lamarre-Condon stated he shot Baird as soon as to disarm him after Baird lunged at him with a knife and a second shot via his head was unintentional. He says that Davies by chance shot himself after grabbing the gun.
The 31-year-old accused has advised the courtroom he had his police pistol with him as a result of he had contemplated taking his personal life the earlier night time over work-related trauma.
He has given the next proof over three days of cross-examination:
- Lamarre-Condon has denied executing Baird and stated he stood by his resolution to fireside the primary shot. He stated he was liable for Baird’s dying however didn’t intend to kill him.
- He has additionally denied stalking Baird earlier than his dying, together with when he noticed the then TV presenter having intercourse with one other man whereas standing outdoors his bed room window after the lads broke up for the primary time in April 2023. He stated he was there to gather some belongings.
- The boys had met in Sydney in October 2022, the courtroom has heard, and their relationship was not unique, however the accused stated they began occurring “romantic dates” in December that 12 months. The boys resumed contact briefly round August or September 2023, after their first break-up, earlier than Baird ended the connection completely in November 2023.
- Lamarre-Condon rejected a suggestion by the prosecution that he was obsessive about Baird “proper from the beginning”. “Smitten, sure. Obsessed, no,” the accused stated.
- The accused admitted he invaded Baird’s privateness and went via his telephone on two events, in March and April 2023.
- He denied breaking into Baird’s dwelling on August 17, 2023. The courtroom has heard he messaged one buddy within the aftermath of the alleged incident that Baird had “a house invasion”. He stated that he panicked and ran out of Baird’s dwelling with the TV presenter’s telephone and pockets after Baird awakened whereas he was trying to take the telephone outdoors to undergo his messages.
- The accused advised the courtroom he entered the house utilizing a key that Baird ignored for him that night time, however put a bobby pin within the lock of the door to offer the impression another person had been in the home in case Baird awakened whereas he was trying via the telephone outdoors. The Crown case is that he used a key he had stolen or had copied, an allegation he denied.
- After being proven a screenshot of a textual content message he despatched Baird on the day of the alleged break-in, by which he wrote, “Haha I’ll take that as a no to doing the catch up then”, Lamarre-Condon stated he communicated with Baird on different platforms together with FaceTime and social media.
- He agreed {that a} buddy had referred to as him “Bobby P” in a joke referring to him placing the bobby pin within the door.
- He rejected Hatfield’s suggestion that it appealed to him that Baird was a TV presenter. “Jesse Baird might have been a rubbish cleaner,” he stated. “We really by no means actually talked a lot about his work. I wasn’t actually enthusiastic about that, to be trustworthy.”
- He additionally denied that he had misrepresented the character of his relationship with Baird in a video he fabricated from them on a farm keep vacation in March 2023.
Assist is out there from the Nationwide Sexual Assault, Home Household Violence Counselling Service at 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732), the Males’s Referral Service on 1300 766 491, and Lifeline on 13 11 14.