Beau Lamarre-Condon murder trial: Forensic evidence revealed in Jesse Baird and Luke Davies Sydney deaths

Frames of a missing bullet, blood-stained clothes and two hire vehicles are among the photographic evidence a jury must assess in deciding whether a police officer is a killer.

Beau Lamarre-Condon, 31, has pleaded not guilty to murdering his ex Jesse Baird and the partner who replaced him, Luke Davies, in an inner-city terrace in February 2024.

The second week of the Supreme Court trial has dealt with the forensic evidence recovered from multiple Sydney locations connected to the alleged slayings.

Fifteen jurors have been presented with hundreds of images captured by crime scene officers as they pieced together the double homicide.

Crucial questions of motive and what happened in the seconds around the shooting are disputed, leading prosecutors to focus on trying to paint a picture of Lamarre-Condon’s obsession with Mr Baird.

Multiple witnesses have testified Mr Baird never wanted a long-term relationship with the senior constable but Lamarre-Condon was after something more serious.

Jurors have been shown a heavily edited video Lamarre-Condon made featuring clips of the pair on a glamping holiday in the Hunter Valley in early 2023.

Mr Baird casually dated his alleged murderer for a few months that summer and the pair briefly got back together in September 2023.

But the TV presenter and AFL goal umpire ceased contact in November after discovering a jealous Lamarre-Condon had been blocking and deleting his phone messages.

Lamarre-Condon accepts Mr Baird and Mr Davies were shot dead in the Paddington house with his police pistol three months later.

The jury this week were shown graphic photographs of the bloody aftermath, as part of the extensive brief of evidence.

Lead crime scene officer Bronwyn Lansley spent days testifying how she and her colleagues painstakingly examined Mr Baird’s terrace, a skip bin where the men’s belongings were found in Cronulla, and three vehicles Lamarre-Condon used.

Bullet holes and indentations were discovered throughout the Paddington house, including one not located until two months before the trial.

But the lack of a bullet that could be connected to the hidden indentation was probed by Mr Stratton.

Central to Lamarre-Condon’s defence is a suggestion Mr Davies accidentally shot himself as he and Lamarre-Condon struggled outside a bedroom over his police pistol.

“At no stage was a projectile or fired bullet found inside (the bedroom),” Mr Stratton said.

“That is correct,” Senior Sergeant Lansley replied, confirming there was also no mark indicating a bullet impact inside the room.

Mr Stratton queried whether the absence of the bullet coupled with the hole found in the door could suggest a fired bullet was lodged in the door and then removed.

“Testing indicates a bullet has exited through that side of the door,” Sen Sgt Lansley said.

The forensic investigator also agreed DNA on the trigger of the officer’s gun might have belonged to Mr Davies.

Prosecutors allege the officer shot Mr Davies deliberately through the bedroom door when the 29-year-old tried to call triple zero after Mr Baird was killed.

That was done to eliminate a witness, the Crown alleges.

The defence case meanwhile claims Mr Davies set upon Lamarre-Condon, as the latter made the call.

A recording of that short call was played on Friday, in which an operator could be heard saying: “Caller disconnected, no request, I heard a male say, ‘Eff off’, call dropped out.”

Lamarre-Condon allegedly cleaned the house multiple times after the two men were dead - including while still dressed as a food delivery rider.

But significant biological evidence was collected under the floorboards, jurors were told.

A tarpaulin with a stain from pooled blood was found below the bedroom, Sen Sgt Lansley said.

There was also extensive staining on the underside of the flooring and supporting joists, she said.

“Blood flowed down a joist and saturated into the timber,” the crime scene officer told the jury.

Beneath the kitchen, officers recovered the bullet that allegedly killed Mr Baird along with impact damage and a small blood stain.

Crime scene officers used luminol, a chemical designed to identify blood staining, throughout the house and cars connected to the killings.

The Crown says Lamarre-Condon entered the premises armed and heavily disguised to kill Mr Baird “execution-style” but was forced to adapt to the unplanned killing of Mr Davies.

He spent days dumping their belongings and transporting their bodies to Bungonia, 200km away.

The purchase of two surfboard bags, one before the deaths and one after, also showed Lamarre-Condon’s true intentions, the prosecutor said.

Leakage from the surfboard bags left in the terrace’s courtyard the day the men died was noticed by Mr Baird’s housemate, who thought the red liquid was rusty water.

“You had no reason to suspect ... there was anything else in those surfboard bags?” prosecutor Brett Hatfield SC asked.

“No,” the housemate replied.

Coveted belongings of the two men, unceremoniously discarded in the top of a bowling club skip bin, were also analysed.

A set of four bloodied white flags and multiple items of AFL-branded clothing were discovered in the bin, Sen Sgt Lansley said.

Mr Baird had been a goal umpire in 62 AFL games.

Lamarre-Condon’s decision to hire multiple vehicles and the evidence discovered within them has also been discussed during the trial.

After his mother hired a mid-size Mazda SUV the day before the men died, Lamarre-Condon hired a bigger Toyota Hiace after the killings.

DNA matching both victims was found in both, Sen Sgt Lansley said.

The switching of the vehicles indicated Lamarre-Condon needed more room to transport the bodies after Mr Davies’s unplanned killing, Mr Hatfield said.

But Mr Stratton suggests a different scenario.

“The conduct of the accused after the events ... were not the actions of a man who believed he was guilty of murder but a man who panicked considerably,” the defence barrister said.

He asserts the deaths were not intentional and the sometimes lacklustre effort to cover up the killings did not show he planned to kill Mr Baird from the beginning.

“(Lamarre-Condon) never planned to kill or ever cause any harm to anyone at (the house),” John Stratton SC said of his client.

“His case was it was in self-defence.”

The jury will view the Paddington terrace during the trial and markers of forensic interest will be pointed out by Sen Sgt Lansley.

A third week of hearings begins on Tuesday.

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